A disgruntled worker tries to board the oil rig "Auntie Julie the Martyr," run by the Nigerian company Conoil. There have been numerous attempts by locals to take over oil rigs as a form of protest.
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A disgruntled worker tries to board the oil rig "Auntie Julie the Martyr," run by the Nigerian company Conoil. There have been numerous attempts by locals to take over oil rigs as a form of protest.

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Photograph

Ed Kashi

Maker
American, b. 1957

A disgruntled worker tries to board the oil rig "Auntie Julie the Martyr," run by the Nigerian company Conoil. There have been numerous attempts by locals to take over oil rigs as a form of protest.

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


2006
Inkjet print, printed 2009
Image: 30.3 x 45.6 cm
Overall: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Gift of Ed Kashi, 2009
2009.0205.0013
Inscriptions verso (grease pencil): Ed Kashi [signed] 3/16/09
TextIn the Igaw village of Oporoza, armed militants with MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) make a show of arms in support of their fallen comrades deep in the swamps of the Niger Delta.

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