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Honorable Mention BIFA 2023 Editorial / Environmental

World'S Largest Lignite Coal-Fired Power Station

  • Photographer
    Omar Marques
  • Agency / Studio
    Getty Images
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Editorial / Environmental

A general view of the Belchatow Powered Coal Station and the open-pit coal mine, as a rare favorable weather allows to fully photograph the scale of the mine and station. The Belchatow coal-powered station, located in Poland, with an output of 5,472 megawatts, is the world's largest lignite coal-fired power station. The station emits approximately 30 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from northwest Portugal based in Krakow, Poland. He works as a stringer for Getty Images, Anadolu Agency and collaborates with magazines on editorial and commercial assignments between Central/Eastern Europe and Balkans. In addition to providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he works on personal long-term projects. Omar’s photographs have been published in The Times, The New York Times, Stern Magazine, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match among others.

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