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" We must remember that in the brutality of conflict, an apocalypse of this kind is never far away. ” SEBASTIAO SALGADO

KUWAIT Désert de feu (A Burning Desert) is the first monograph on the incredible series of 1991 reports by Sebastião Salgado on the human, economic and environmental catastrophe of the oil well fire in Kuwait.

" In January and February 1991, as the US-led coalition began to drive the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with a hellish maneuver: They ignite nearly 700 oil wells and an undetermined number of areas where it is afloat, …