Photographer
Christian Als
2006. China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution with devastating consequences for the Chinese people who live far away from the glitzy skyscrapers of Shanghai. It is those people who are paying the high prize of the new and modern China.
300 millions - equivalent to the population of the United States - no longer have access to clean drinking water. They are left with no other choice than drinking the water from polluted rivers and groundwater, which causes a wave of deadly diseases.
2005. Lord's Resistance Army continues to wage war against the Ugandan government, whose undisciplined army has committed crimes against civilians, the very people they are supposed to protect. Today, as the war continues into its 20th year, 1.9 million displaced civilians living in IDP camps (Internally Displaced People) in Northern Uganda remain isolated, ignored and unprotected, vulnerable to abuses by both rebel and army forces.
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Christian Als is a danish photojournalist based in Copenhagen, who have worked incountries like Russia, China, Tibet, Uganda, Kenya, Lebanon, Syria,South Korea, USA, Nicaragua, Latvia, Morocco, Argentina, India, Pakistan and Scandinavia.
He's a graduate of the Danish School of Journalism and has won numerous international photo awards.
Christian's passion and interest in photography developed in the late nineties after extensive travels, where he realised his talent and urge to document his surroundings. He undertakes social and humanitarian projects around the world. Most of all he just loves people and he loves photography.
Christian was born 3/8 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His work has been published in such publications as Der Spiegel, DeVolkskrant, Christian Science Monitor, Bücher Magazine, BerlingskeTidende, Information, Børsen, 24timer, Jyllands-Posten, Urban, ARENA,LUKSUS Magazine and Surfer Magazine.
www.christianals.com
