Niger Delta

The Amenan Kpono Oil Platform, owned by Total of France, emerges from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Akwa-Ibom state of Nigeria.
In the Ogoniland village of Kpean, an oil well head that had been leaking for weeks has turned into a raging inferno.Oil pipelines create a walkway for this young woman through the village of Okrika Town.An Urohobo woman bakes tapioca in the heat of a Shell gas flareWorkers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean up an oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum wellhead.Three locals sit in a boat in front of a Nembe fishing village in Bayelsa state with a Shell pipeline running through its little harbor.A young worker carries the carcass of a freshly killed goat to be roasted by the flames of burning tires at the Trans Amadi Abbatoir of Port Harcourt.Piles of horns and bones are testament to the number of animals slaughtered daily at Trans Amadi.King Nemi Tamunoiyala Oputibeya poses for a portrait on his throne.Francis Samuel, 30, a resident of the Ogu community in the Rivers state bears the scars from a brutal governmental attack.Deep in the Niger Delta swamps, in the Igaw village of Oporoza, armed militants with MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) make a show of arms in support of fallen comrades.Thick clouds of black smoke loom over the Trans-Amadi Slaughterhouse.

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