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"Kuwait" is a photo book of Sebastião Salgado, a photographer born in Brazil and based in France. In recent years, the documentary "The Salt of the Earth" directed by Wim Wenders has also been screened. In the 1970s, he abandoned his career as an economist and became a photojournalist.・ Received the Smith Award, expanded the stage to the world such as Asia and Africa since the 1990s, and energetically worked on not only "news photography" but also "nature photography" that appeals for environmental protection, and repeated grand projects Sargado continues. This book describes the situation and fire extinguishing activities when an oil field in Kuwait was set on fire by the Iraqi army during the 1991 Gulf War. Subtitle "A Desert on Fire". Twenty-five years have passed since then, and it has been compiled as a collection of works. Multilingual version.