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May 14, 2008

Sebastiao Salgado and The Curse of Oil

There is a thought-provoking new BBC special out called "The Curse of Oil". It is admittedly not going to satisfy all political sensitivities, but it is still worth watching and much better than 99% of fare on this subject.

Here is Part 1:

And you can find parts 2 and 3 here.

For obvious reasons, the series had me thinking about photographer Sebastiao Salgado's wonderful work, some of which touches on oil and the costs of its recovery. Here is a photo from his collection Workers where he documents men fighting Kuwaiti oil fires after the first Gulf War.

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