Oil-soaked workers take a break from cleaning up a spill in the swamps near Oloibiri.
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Oil-soaked workers take a break from cleaning up a spill in the swamps near Oloibiri.

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Photograph

Ed Kashi

Maker
American, b. 1957

Oil-soaked workers take a break from cleaning up a spill in the swamps near Oloibiri.

From Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta


2004
Inkjet print, printed 2009
Image: 30.3 x 45.6 cm
Overall: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Gift of Ed Kashi, 2009
2009.0205.0001
Inscriptions verso (grease pencil): Ed Kashi [signed] 3/16/09
TextOil soaked workers clean up an oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Oloibiri, Niger Delta.

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