Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. A Desert On Fire

In January And February 1991, As The United States-led Coalition Drove Iraqi Forces Out Of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s Troops Retaliated With An Inferno. As Much A Major Document Of Modern History As An Extraordinary Photographic Portfolio, Kuwait: A Desert On Fire Is The First Monograph On Sebastião Salgado’s Astonishing 1991 Series On The Human, Economic, And Environmental Catastrophe Of The Torched Kuwaiti Oil Fields.