the Devil’s gold

Published June 30, 2015 at 1024 × 683 in The Environmental Photographer of the Year, 2015
Alpan, 27, a sulfur miner for ten years now, looks for sulfur slabs under the toxic fumes.Inside the womb of the Ijen Kawah volcano, in Eastern Java, Indonesia, the miners go deep in search of the Devil’s gold, as sulfur has always been known. Luca Catalano Gonzaga more →