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The Kuwait: A Desert on Fire monograph documents Sebastião Salgado's 1991 photographic series on the torched Kuwaiti oil fields, capturing the human, economic, and environmental catastrophe that followed the Gulf War. Combining historical record with striking large-format photography, the volume presents Salgado's work as both a documentary archive and an artistic portfolio. Its pages chronicle the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's forces igniting the oil fields during the coalition-led withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with an inferno. As much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary photographic portfolio, Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph on Sebastião Salgado’s astonishing 1991 series on the human, economic, and environmental catastrophe of the torched Kuwaiti oil fields.
