68 DIGITAL CAMERA^ JUNE 2019 http://www.digitalcameraworld.comCamera Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Exposure 1/125 sec at f/4, ISO 5,000Winner, Professional Documentary category, and Overall Winner
Federico Borella, from the series ‘Five Degrees’
“India, Tamil Nadu, May 2018. Rasathi is the wife of Selvarasy, a farmer who committed suicide in May
2017 by hanging himself in his own field. He got into debt with a cooperative society. A study carried
out by Tamma A Carleton, and published by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
analysed climate data from the last 47 years and compared it with the number of farmer suicides in
the same period. The research concluded that changes in temperatures that have been occurring
since the 1980s have played a role in the decision by thousands of farmers to take their own lives.”i
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