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Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is a British photographer and filmmaker based in Beijing

November 2025

  • A man in a blue t-shirt holds a large bag filled with water bottles. There is a mountain of these behind him

    Plastic paradise: on the frontlines of the fight to clean up pollution in Bali – in pictures

    Photographer and film-maker Sean Gallagher documents the increasing tide of rubbish washing up on beaches and riverbanks
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February 2020

  • Farmland disappears into Bohai Bay, northern China

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Bohai Bay: the Chinese region disappearing inch by inch – in pictures

    Farmland, abandoned seaside resorts and salt fields are slowly being claimed by the rising waters
    Gallery16

May 2019

  • An aerial view of islands in the Funafuti atoll. Located in the South West Pacific Ocean, Tuvalu is the world’s 4th smallest country and is one of the most vulnerable to climate change impacts including sea level rise, drought and extreme weather events. Tuvalu - March, 2019. Sea level rising in Tuvalu due to climate change

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    'One day we'll disappear': Tuvalu's sinking islands

    Rising seas are on the verge of swallowing two of the tiny archipelago’s nine islands, and the encroaching waves haunt locals’ dreams

January 2019

  • Bird poaching has become a silent epidemic across China, but one young conservationist is determined to set the birds free

    Animals farmed
    Uncaged: saving China's songbirds from the poachers' nets – video

    Bird poaching has become a silent epidemic across China, but one young conservationist is determined to set the birds free

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