TOKYO-2016 Editorial / Personality

"Ice Age: Dark Scenes from South East Asia's Meth Epidemic"

  • Prize
    Bronze in Editorial/Personality
  • Photographer
    Benjamin Haselberger

South East Asia is being flooded by the highly addictive drug, methamphetamine, or Ice. Manufactured in jungle labs in Burma, the crystals take control of children as young as 12 and create a violent hunger for the high. Leaving authorities startled as it grips the impoverished communities in the slums of south East Asia.