World Press Photo 2007: 1st prize News Single /
Above 2 shots: Aftermath of a ruptured petroleum gas pipe, Nigeria, 2006. See Akintunde Akinleye’s site for ‘Hell from Heaven, Lagos Oil Blast’ /
A burnt canoe hull rests in a polluted creek after an oil pipeline explosion caused by people who tried to steal fuel at Arepo village, just outside Lagos, on January 13, 2013 /
A locally made boat containing crude oil is manned through a creek near river Nun in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, on December 6, 2012 /
Akintunde Akinleye gained rare access to an illegal oil refinery near the river Nun in Nigeria’s oil state of Bayelsa. Source for these shots: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/nigeria-the-cost-of-oil/100082/