Daesung Lee's series, 'On the Shore of Vanishing Island', is stunningly haunting. Documenting erosion on Ghoramara, an island in the Delta region of West Bengal, Lee's award-winning photographs encapsulate a dramatic synthesis of fact and emotion. Through his lens, he opens the world's eyes to a problem so distant, yet so close. It is our energy consumption that has caused the emptiness of the farmer's glare; the fragility of the cow so desperately searching for water. The photograph is certainly powerful, its shocking whiteness contrasting with nothing but the empty brown of the ground, and the lines of the earth's hungry cracks pointing towards the two barely-living creatures, shrouded by the scarcity above. Yet its effect is only partly due to Lee's talent. We have caused this barren landscape. We have caused this desperation. We have caused this shock factor.

This is award winning art. This is making a difference.