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Dixie Evans At Miss Exotic World
Photograph
Ed Kashi
Dixie Evans At Miss Exotic World
2003
2015.0133.1773
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Abraham Aronow
Ed Kashi
ca. 1990
2011.0147.0115
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Ed Kashi
Militants with MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) brandish their weapons in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Here they check a former Nigerian Army floating barracks that they had destroyed in March 2006. 14 soldiers died in that attack
2006
2009.0205.0015
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Photograph
Ed Kashi
Oil pipelines create a walkway for this young woman through the village of Okrika Town.
2006
2009.0205.0014
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Photograph
Ed Kashi
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.
2006
2009.0205.0013
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Ed Kashi
Children beg on the streets of the oil city of Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta. Poverty is rampant there and a crumbling infrustructure reflects the neglect of the government even while the riches of oil continue to flow.
2006
2009.0205.0012
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Ed Kashi
Owned by Total of France, the Amenam Kpono oil platform emerges from the Atlantic Ocean off the Niger Delta coast.
2006
2009.0205.0011
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Photograph
Ed Kashi
At a Total gas drilling installation in Rivers State, a Chinese contracter, ZPED, works with Nigerians and the French company to drill for gas. This field is part of the only onshore oil exploitation that Total has in the Niger Delta.
2006
2009.0205.0010
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Ed Kashi
There are no options for work. Fifty years of oil has brought the Deltans nothing. Ebia Amakady, 18, sits with her sleeping two-year-old son.
2006
2009.0205.0009
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Ed Kashi
In Uvwie, a local district of Warri, a funderal procession for Roseline Okotie, 63, is as festive as it is sad.
2006
2009.0205.0008
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Ed Kashi
Founded by a Nigerian man in the early 20th century, the Cherubim and Seraphim Mount Zion church in Finima is an African- Christian church that has branches throughout the Delta; A woman is overcome by evil spirits and flails to the ground.
2006
2009.0205.0007
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Ed Kashi
Workers push heavy barrels of gas up from the waterfront into the main market of Yenagoa, capital of the oil-rich state of Bayelsa.
2006
2009.0205.0006
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Ed Kashi
In the fishing village of Finima, which was relocated to make room for the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant on Bonny Island, local men cut wood from the swamps to use for drying fish.
2006
2009.0205.0005
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Ed Kashi
Children play in the polluted waters off Bonny Island where the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant is located. NLNG's plant is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
2006
2009.0205.0004
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Ed Kashi
In the oil town of Afiesere, local Urohobo people bake 'krokpo-garri', or tapioca in the heat of a gas flare. Since 1961, when Shell Petroleum Development Company first opened this flow station, residents of the local community have worked in this way.
2004
2009.0205.0003
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Ed Kashi
Living conditions are poor in Okrika, with evidence of oil leaks and oil fires along the pipelines that run through the town. These pipelines extend from Okrika to the coast terminal, which is managed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).
2004
2009.0205.0002
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Ed Kashi
Oil-soaked workers take a break from cleaning up a spill in the swamps near Oloibiri.
2004
2009.0205.0001
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Ed Kashi
An Unidentified Man Presses a Garmet in the Al Nahar District of Central Bagdad
November 22, 2003
2004.0899.0001
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