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SCY - Dying to Breathe
Dying to Breathe
China/Shaanxi/Henan/by Sim Chi Yin / VII/ personal project/2011-2013/
Mi Shixiu cradles He Quangui's head as he's struggling to breathe. . .He eventually recovers his breath. But in the wee hours of the next morning, he tried to kill himself to end the suffering.
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Dying to breathe: former gold miner He Quangui is slowing dying of silicosis - a irreversible but preventable disease he contracted from years of working in small, unregulated gold mines in the Henan province, central China. Ten years after he was diagnosed with silicosis, he is fighting for his life, fighting to keep breathing. In this illness, a type of pneumoconiosis - China's most prevalent occupational disease afflicting millions - silica dust sucked into the lungs during years of blasting rock causes the miner's lungs to harden and eventually fail. Workers who can get good health care and remove themselves from the harmful environment -- particularly those who worked for state mines -- can live a normal person's lifespan. But most of the growing number of victims in China today are migrant workers like Mr He, with no insurance, good healthcare or legal recourse. They typically die in their 30s, leaving families with no sole breadwinners, wives with no husbands, children without fathers.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
6632
SCY - Dying to Breathe
Dying to Breathe
China/Shaanxi/Henan/by Sim Chi Yin / VII/ personal project/2011-2013/
Mi Shixiu cradles He Quangui's head as he's struggling to breathe. . .He eventually recovers his breath. But in the wee hours of the next morning, he tried to kill himself to end the suffering.
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Dying to breathe: former gold miner He Quangui is slowing dying of silicosis - a irreversible but preventable disease he contracted from years of working in small, unregulated gold mines in the Henan province, central China. Ten years after he was diagnosed with silicosis, he is fighting for his life, fighting to keep breathing. In this illness, a type of pneumoconiosis - China's most prevalent occupational disease afflicting millions - silica dust sucked into the lungs during years of blasting rock causes the miner's lungs to harden and eventually fail. Workers who can get good health care and remove themselves from the harmful environment -- particularly those who worked for state mines -- can live a normal person's lifespan. But most of the growing number of victims in China today are migrant workers like Mr He, with no insurance, good healthcare or legal recourse. They typically die in their 30s, leaving families with no sole breadwinners, wives with no husbands, children without fathers.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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6633
SCY - Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese sunbathers and swimmers enjoy an afternoon of sun at one of several public beaches in Qingdao, China, July 26, 2012. Some were hiding under umbrellas while some women bathers were wearing masks made out of bathing suit material over their heads, to ward off the sun.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese sunbathers and swimmers enjoy an afternoon of sun at one of several public beaches in Qingdao, China, July 26, 2012. Some were hiding under umbrellas while some women bathers were wearing masks made out of bathing suit material over their heads, to ward off the sun.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - China's Rat Tribe
Rat Tribe
Twenty-three-year-old He Bing tries on his new shirt and borrowed suit and tie for size the night before an examination to become an insurance salesman, Beijing, China, March 10, 2011. Bing recently arrived to Beijing from Chongqing City, moving into a central Beijing basement room that he shares with two others. Faced with sky-high property prices, living underground is often the only option for this legion of low-waged migrant workers, who make up one-third of Beijing?s estimated 20 million people.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - China's Rat Tribe
Rat Tribe
Twenty-three-year-old He Bing tries on his new shirt and borrowed suit and tie for size the night before an examination to become an insurance salesman, Beijing, China, March 10, 2011. Bing recently arrived to Beijing from Chongqing City, moving into a central Beijing basement room that he shares with two others. Faced with sky-high property prices, living underground is often the only option for this legion of low-waged migrant workers, who make up one-third of Beijing?s estimated 20 million people.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII