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Ed Kashi on his environmental photography projects in the Niger delta and Madagascar

Ed Kashi on his environmental photography projects in Niger delta and Madagascar

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2010/may/06/ed-kashi-niger-delta-madagascar

The photojournalist Ed Kashi’s work chronicling oil extraction in the Niger delta, the Curse of the Black Gold, won him the Prix Pictet Commission, whereby he was invited to produce a body of work on the theme of Earth. Here he discusses the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, his work in the Niger delta and the recent Prix Pictet exhibition, Madagascar: A Land Out of Balance.