Research landscape/environmental photographers

Munem Wasif

Munem is an eminent documentary photographer in Bangladesh and has been represented by Agence Vu since 2008.

He started his photographic career as a feature photographer for the Daily Star, a leading English daily in Bangladesh

He's won countless awards and grants worldwide such as the Prix Pictet commission in 2008  and Sea Waters Tears in Chobimela, international festival of photography in 2009. 

Wasif illustrates the changes occurring in the far south-west of Bangladesh. He travelled the area on a motorcycle and took photographs of the inhabitants he encountered.

A young woman covered with a blanket who sits in front of a loam hut, clearly feeling unwell.

He portrayed two women waiting for their pitchers to be filled with fresh water from the only filters in the area.

Here three brothers pushing their boats,  with only the jerrycans filled with fresh water they had collected inland as cargo, through low tide into the sea.

Source: http://www.munemwasif.com/

The collection of images above are documenting the ecological changes in the Bay of Bengal.
In the most densely populated land in the world, where every inch of usable land is needed, country tidal waves occur and coastal erosion is accelerating; salty seawater invades the land causing it to become brackish, hence it's barren state.

The black and white images show just how catastrophic the flooding influences the daily life in Bangladesh.  

They are only three of many however my three favourite. I believe they really capture the effect these events have on the health of the population, the lack of water and the effects of the land. 

Munem was said to have been riding around on a motorcycle so I assume the only equipment he used would have been a camera and a tripod.
I believe he used High Dynamic Range photography, as on his website the tones are extremely vivid, really creating and intense collections of images.