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Amanda Sperber

Amanda Sperber is an East Africa–based freelance journalist.

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Miners use traditional tools to break salt into bricks, which they then carry for hours on camelback to the nearest town. The mining site is a popular destination for local tourists, who gather in small groups to snap photos of the operation. Photograph by Alex Pritz.

This Must Be the Place

Winter 2018 | Photography

The Danakil is an environmentally outlandish, politically disputed, mineral-rich plain about 124 miles long by thirty-one miles wide in northern Ethiopia, on the border of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. Home to the Afar people, a predominantly Muslim [...]