SEBASTIÃO SALGADO , Kuwait, 1991
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO , Kuwait, 1991 
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SEBASTIAO SALGADO Kuwait: A Desert on Fire

05/09/2017 - 29/11/2017

ROBERT KLEIN 
38 Newbury Street 
 
2116 Boston

https://www.robertkleingallery.com/   

 
Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by SEBASTIÃO SALGADO.  Kuwait: A Desert on Fire runs from Tuesday, September 5 through Wednesday, November 29 at ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY at 38 Newbury Street. 

When the Iraqi Army retreated across the Kuwaiti desert in early 1991, after being repelled by U.S.-led coalition forces in Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein and his soldiers took the military strategy of "scorched earth," and set aflame about 700 oil wells, igniting persistent fires across Kuwait, and creating one of the worst environmental disasters in recent history.

When SEBASTIÃO SALGADO traveled to the Middle East to document the grueling fire-fight, he quickly realized just how dangerous and brutal the world was that he had stepped into - a quagmire of health hazards, the air choked with soot, searing heat from the flames and desert sun, and cluster bombs littering the sand. The heat was so vicious that his smallest lens warped. A journalist and another photographer were killed when a slick ignited as they crossed it.