In Focus: Moises Saman Photographs Peru's Gold Miners
Magnum photographer Moises Saman, a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant, has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a number of stories in Latin America, most recently
in Peru. There he documented the gold mines La Rinconada, a mercury-contaminated pueblo clinging to a mountainside. Because …
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