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Preet Nagar, Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh India 2013.

New Bhanpur Road Bridge, Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, MP India

A child’s toy, evidence that children have free access to the toxic wasteland that is the Union Carbide Factory grounds, lays on the ground in front of “tank 610.” The tank, (which is approximately the size of an articulated bus), was removed from its original place for inspection after the disaster. It currently exists just behind the dilapidated wall which separates the factory grounds and the JP Nagar slum.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

A scale model of the Union Carbide Plant exists in the control room under the dust and filth. It displays the very basic and criminally accessible “Solar Evaporation Pond” which is a fancy way of saying an open air slurry pit for waste chemical water. This pit exists outside of the plant’s walled grounds.

A scale model of the Union Carbide Plant exists in the control room under the dust and filth. It displays the very basic and criminally accessible “Solar Evaporation Pond” which is a fancy way of saying an open air slurry pit for waste chemical water. This pit exists outside of the plant’s walled grounds.

A scale model of the Union Carbide Plant exists in the control room under the dust and filth. It displays the very basic and criminally accessible “Solar Evaporation Pond” which is a fancy way of saying an open air slurry pit for waste chemical water. This pit exists outside of the plant’s walled grounds.

A scale model of the Union Carbide Plant exists in the control room under the dust and filth. It displays the very basic and criminally accessible “Solar Evaporation Pond” which is a fancy way of saying an open air slurry pit for waste chemical water. This pit exists outside of the plant’s walled grounds.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

The sheer size of the Union Carbide plant and the noxious pesticides that were manufactured here under questionable conditions, can only begin to give an approximation of the scene as it was the day of the gas leak.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

The super structure of one of the refining and separation pipes at the Union Carbide Plant Bhopal, MP India.

Musharraf Ali explains the functions of certain tanks at the Union Carbide Plant, Bhopal MP India.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management. Union carbide Factory, Bhopal, MP India

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

Decaying pieces of asbestos hang precariously from rusted and hazily fatigued superstructure. The floor is covered in pieces of smashed asbestos, known for its carcinogenic particulants. Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, MP India

Musharraf Ali surrounded by fallen pieces of decaying Asbestos roofing which litters the floor space of the main building. In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

Musharraf Ali stands under decaying Asbestos roofing which litters the floor space of the main building. In the subsequent 30 years since the Union Carbine industrial disaster, the plant has slowly disintegrated without any reparation oversight care or management.

Musharraf Ali and Jadgesh Nema, Bhopal Disaster Gravesite, MP India

Musharraf Ali and Jadgesh Nema, Bhopal Disaster Gravesite, MP India

Jadgesh Nema lights incense in Hindu tradition as a mark of respect to the thousands of dead he helped bury after the Union Carbide Industrial disaster.

A Marigold garland is laid at the site of the Union Carbide Disaster memorial plinth.

Musharraf Ali and Jadgesh Nema at the Bhopal Disaster memorial plinth at the cemetery in Bhopal. Ali is Muslim and Nema Hindu, neither their faith or politics played any part other than where their respective dead were to be laid to rest. Hindu tradition bodies are cremated and Muslim bodies are buried. In the days following December 2, 1984, bodies were brought en-masse to this cemetery and buried.

Abdul Jabbar, internationally recognized Union Carbide Disaster activist, prepares documents in his office in the seemingly endless task of fighting for victims rights.

Abdul Jabbar, an internationally renowned activist in the fight for victims rights, set up an empowerment center for victims of the Union Carbide industrial disaster.

Abdul Jabbar, an activist in the fight against the Indian government and Union Carbide, seeks reparations and financial aid for the victims and their children. This Empowerment Center in Bhopal MP India, seeks to re-educate and support women who would otherwise have no recourse. Many of these women were infants at the time of the 30 year old disaster and have no parents and did not get the basic education to survive. Without Abdul Jabbar’s clinic, many would be suffering more than they are now. Here women are learning to make clothes for their children through patterning, cutting, sewing and embroidery.

Internationally recognized activist in the fight against the Indian government and Union Carbide for reparations and financial aid for the victims and their children, of the Union Carbide industrial disaster 1984.

Abdul Jabbar, an activist in the fight against the Indian government and Union Carbide, seeks reparations and financial aid for the victims and their children. This Empowerment Center in Bhopal MP India, seeks to re-educate and support women who would otherwise have no recourse. Many of these women were infants at the time of the 30 year old disaster and have no parents and did not get the basic education to survive. Without Abdul Jabbar’s clinic, many would be suffering more than they are now. Here Abdul’s son shows humorous ingenuity using tape and other office supplies to mock the photographer in a wonderful display of imagination.