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Petra-Olum

In 1964, Texaco arrived to Ecuador with a 1.5 million hectares concession in the Amazon rainforest, extracting oil from 450.000 hectares in its concession.
The oil giant admitted in court to having dumped billions of gallons of crude and dangerous chemical products directly into rivers and unlined pits over decades, in an especially diverse part of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. This was constituted one of the largest oil disasters the world has ever seen. Hundreds of waste pits still sit, leaching toxic waters. The region now has the highest rate of cancer.

Awards Honorable Mention in the ND Photography Awards 2014. Honorable Mention - International Photography Awards 2014, Honorable Mention - International Photography Awards 2014, 1st prize - Pride Photo Award 2013 – Amsterdam. Selected in XV Bienal de Fotografia 2012 2nd prize F.I.N.I. International Award 2012. 3rd prize Picture of the Years Latam 2011.

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