
Title: Bhopal: second disaster
Photographer(s): Alex Masi
Writer(s): Indra Sinha
Designer(s): Mark Weinberg
Publisher(s): Foto Evidence Press, New York, U.S.A.
Year: 2012
Print run:
Language(s): English
Pages: 80
Size: 20 x 30 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Ofset Yapimevi, Istanbul, Turkey
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: India,2008-2009
ISBN:9780983491361














Bhopal Second Disaster by Alex Masi provides a portrait of people living in the shadow of one of the worst industrial accidents ever to occur: a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India in 1984.
Though the official death toll following the accident was reported as approximately 4,000 people with more than 200,000 affected by the leak. Independent research places the number of dead somewhere over 20,000. One study found 17,000 shrouds for burying the dead sold in the area in the two weeks following the accident. Another study interviewed a truck driver who reported spending a week following the accident transporting truckloads of unattended bodies to a mass burial site. The true number of dead and injured will never be known but the consequences for the living are still being felt.
Almost 30 years later, approximately 30,000 people live in settlements in the area surrounding the abandoned plant and find themselves and their children suffering from severe neurological disorders produced by years of chemical contamination of the areas soil and water.Â
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