Vanishing: a book by Antonin Kratochvil

Vanishing is a riveting collection of 16 photo essays taken over 16 years. It is a tour through endangered life forms and ruined environments, human catastrophes and destruction - resulting in vanishing cultures. Powerful scenes include mining for gold using cyanide in Guyana, a downtown of urban ruins in Beirut, bush meat markets in the Congo, Toxic waste areas in Louisiana, anarchists battling police in Prague, the effects of radioactivity exposure in Chernobyl, a polluted Caspian sea, a mother searching for her dead son in Iraq and post-9/11 New York.