Man Took the Exact Same Picture Every Day for a Year to Highlight Beijing’s Air Pollution

Man Took the Exact Same Picture Every Day for a Year to Highlight Beijing’s Air Pollution

Beijing’s air quality is infamous, but while statistics and technical facts can be shocking, one Beijing resident wanted to use the power of a photograph

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/14/one-years-worth-pictures-highlight-horrible-air-pollution-beijing/

Zou Yi is a Beijing resident and for the past year, he has taken a picture of the same building at the same exact time of day. By itself each photo is unremarkable. But when you put a full year, 365 days worth, of pictures together into one massive diptych, his point about the air pollution becomes unavoidable: