Featured Exhibit/February 9, 2009

Ed Kashi Documents the Human Costs of Oil Exploitation in the Niger Delta

Renowned documentary photographer and SDN advisor Ed Kashi's Curse of the Black Gold examines 50 years of oil in West Africa. Now one of the major suppliers of US oil, Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. This exhibit documents the consequences of oil exploration and production in one of the world's foremost centers of biodiversity. It chronicles the lives of local leaders, armed militants, oil workers, and villagers -all of whose fate is inextricably linked-in the ongoing struggle of communities caught in the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty.

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