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In Focus: Moises Saman Photographs Peru's Gold Miners

By David Schonauer   Wednesday April 29, 2015

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 …

Read the whole story at The New Yorker.


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