1992 Photo Contest, Oskar Barnack Award, Individual awards
Photographer

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado

Magnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine

01 January, 1991

Joe Bowden, the owner of Wild Well Control consults one of his workers. Hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells were sabotaged by departing Iraqis, turning the desert into a poisoned inferno. Specialist firefighters moved in to minimize the damage.

About the photographer

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado

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