Featured today on the New York Times Lens Blog, David Gonzalez writes about Ed Kashi’s documentary project, Island of Widows about Nicaragua’s kidney disease crisis.
The health crisis Ed Kashi encountered among sugar cane workers in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, last year was stark. Over the course of two weeks he spent in the area, there was a funeral every day for workers who had died of chronic kidney disease. Though he had gone there on a commission for a nongovernmental organization that was helping the workers, he left convinced that he had to continue his documentation on his own.
Making Pictures, Finding Solutions is the name of Gonzalez’s piece. Read more Here.
