UNICEF Photo of the Year 2019 Is Heartbreaking

© Hartmut Schwarzbach, Germany (Argus Photo Agency) 

Only the rats like it here. The harbour of Manila’s Tondo district: here, the children make a living by fishing plastic bottles out of the bay’s polluted water and selling them to recyclers. With a bit of luck, they can earn 50 Philippine pesos a day, about 90 euro cents.

Hartmut Schwarzbach, born in 1956 in Elmshorn, studied photo design and photojournalism at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund. The living conditions of children in Asia and Africa have been his main focus as a photographer and documentary filmmaker.

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