For a Few Crumbs of Gold

Much more than the idyllic images of silhouettes of camel caravans walking at a slow pace along the undulating golden dunes at sunset, the Sahara is for many, the place to come to earn a living. In this vast ocean of sand, the abrasive heat, the harshness of the wind and the cruelty of the sun make it unthinkable that a place to work can be possibly found here.

SudanNicolás Marino5 May 2014delgo, desert, excavation, fever, gold fever, gold, golden, market, mine, miners, mining, nubian, sahara, sudan

Into the Lungs of Hell

The sulphur miners of the Ijen volcano, in the easternmost point of Java, carry out still in the 21st century, one of the most unhealthy and inhuman jobs in the world.

IndonesiaNicolás Marino27 June 2013ijen crater, ijen, indonesia, inequality, inhumanity, java, kawah ijen, labor, miners, mining, sulfur, sulphur, tropics, unjustice, volcano