Crude Reflections / Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest

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ISBN-10: 0872864723
ISBN-13: 9780872864726
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 07/01/2008
Dimensions: 10.00" L, 8.50" W, 0.40" H

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Crude Reflections / Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest

byLou Dematteis, Kayana Szymczak
Introduction by: Sting
Introduction by: Trudie Styler

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Overview

Crude Reflections chronicles the human and environmental impact of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the pollution is so extensive that medical experts currently predict thousands of deaths from cancer and the disappearance of five indigenous rainforest communities.

Photographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak have documented the physical and emotional reality of those affected by this toxic contamination, roughly thirty times greater than the more widely reported Exxon Valdez oil spill. Their powerful images are accompanied by moving first-person testimonies from the victims, and the uplifting story of efforts by local communities to seek justice and to prevent further drilling.

  • San Francisco Bay Area photojournalist and documentary photographer Lou Dematteis has covered issues of social, political, economic and environmental importance for the past 30 years. A former staff photographer for Reuters News Pictures, he was based in Managua, Nicaragua, from 1985 to 1990, where he covered the wars and civil unrest which raged in the region. He went on to serve ten years as the San Francisco photo bureau chief for Reuters. He has published three books and his photos have appeared in every major U.S. newspaper and in every major news magazine in the United States and Europe.

    An award-winning photographer, he has received a citation from World Press Photo and his photos have been included in the New York Times and National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year. In 1990 he was named one of the top 80 photojournalists in the world. His work has been exhibited on four continents and in 2007 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to exhibit his work from the Ecuadoran Amazon in the communities in Ecuador most affected by the contamination left in the region as a result of Texaco's oil extraction practices.
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Details

ISBN-10: 0872864723
ISBN-13: 9780872864726
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 07/01/2008
Dimensions: 10.00" L, 8.50" W, 0.40" H
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