Photo and aerial video work for PublicEye, a Switzerland-based journalism NGO which focuses on troubling practices by Swiss companies all over the world. On this piece, I traveled to Borneo to document coal mining owned by IMR and Mercuria. The resulting images are published on the September issue of the magazine (also on the cover).

Story excerpt:
Giving the mining sector carte blanche has enabled Indonesia to become a top coal exporter in the space of a decade. Public Eye travelled to the heart of the world’s second-largest tropical forest, to a village inhabited by the Dayak indigenous group. Since 2019, inhabitants have been struggling with a mine operated on behalf of a Swiss conglomerate. Land grabbing, contamination of air and water: coal is a partial and capricious king.

Written by Adria Budry Carbo

Read the story online here (best view on desktop)

Assignment via Panos Picture