Raking salt in the crystal ponds of Senegal
In the salt ponds of Senegal; digging, lugging, breastfeeding and wrestling are not necessarily mutually exclusive tasks.


Photojournalist
In the salt ponds of Senegal; digging, lugging, breastfeeding and wrestling are not necessarily mutually exclusive tasks.
Each day, miners from all over West Africa travel to a small village in Senegal to see if today is their lucky day.
In the nether regions of the Sahara, Mauritanians brave scorching temperatures by day, freezing cold winds and sandstorms at night, as they make their way across the country on a freight train.
In the eastern part of the occupied West Bank, Israel is quietly carrying out a campaign to remove Palestinian communities from land it seeks to acquire.
The hand-sculpted terraces of north Vietnam are dotted with hunched rice farmers as they toil in the mud to cultivate the food that will feed a nation.
As Dhaka drowns in waste, a handful of citizens are building employment and economic opportunities out of the rubble.
Visit a part of the world where thousands of farmers’ livelihoods depend on a small green piece of fruit.
Adrian Guerin is an Australian Photojournalist based in Melbourne and London. His work with remote communities in North Africa has been featured in the Guardian, Wired magazine and Musée magazine. Adrian’s photography from Mauritania won the Travel category of the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards and was featured on the BBC, CNN and in London’s Somerset House. His reportage on the forced displacement of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley was published in French publication Orient XXI. In Australia, Adrian shoots events and portraiture for the Wilderness Society and is a still photographer for films and productions at Atomos Global. For enquiries about prints, opportunities or just to say hello, please get in touch: hello@adrianguerin.com
I was recently interviewed by Wired Magazine about my Saharan freight train story. Wired shared the story to their 10.4 million followers on Twitter and 1.4 million followers on Instagram. The piece was also translated to Japanese for Wired Japan. Read the interview online.
My photo from the back of a Mauritanian freight train won the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards (Travel Category). The photo was featured on CNN, BBC, The Guardian and many more global news sites.
My story on Israel’s ongoing campaign to demolish Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley was recently published in Orient XXI. Orient XXI is a French publication dedicated to politics and reportage in the Middle East. Read the published article here.
Musée Magazine recently featured my work from the salt flats of Senegal for a feature story on Earth Day.
The Guardian featured my series from the Danakil Depression in the Travel section of the UK edition of their newspaper as well as the Photography section online.
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