Nigeria is the 6th largest producer of oil in the world ? and now one of the major suppliers of US oil against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil. Virtually all of Nigeria?s oil is pumped from the nine states that make up the Niger Delta in the south east of the country. While the Delta produces 95 percent of the country?s wealth, it is the poorest region in the nation. This work exposes the reality of oil?s impact and the absence of sustainable development in its wake.
Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Kashi, with a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University, has been photographing professionally since 1979. Ed?s collaboration with National Geographic, among other publications, has produced a growing body of work on the modern Middle-East. In December 2002, Kashi and his wife Julie Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit educational multimedia company that explores social issues through visually compelling materials.
