Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil

Oil may be making its long goodbye, but twilight or not, the Oil Age still defines our world.

SEPT. / OCT. 2009

NIGERIA
Children play in the halo of a natural gas flare in Ebocha. The name means "Place of Light," after the flare at an Agip petroleum refinery that has burned there, night and day, since the 1970s. 

PHOTO BY MICHAEL KAMBER

 

 SUBJECTS: ENERGY, OIL