Cartography of Darkness

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Beach Power Station Railway

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Electricity Energy

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Media Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Field Research Portrait Quarry

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Quarry

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Barrel Port Ship

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Pierre Malychef

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Ammonium Nitrate Ammonium Sulfate Damage Ecology Energy Explosion Military War

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Pierre Malychef

Image taken by Dr. Pierre Malychef documenting the 1989 Dora Port Explosion and its aftermaths on March 30th 1989. A destitute hangar with a pressure-torn roof post-explosion. We see 5 frontal sacks with the same “Ammonium Sulfate, BASF, made in Germany” mark as in another image with a close up portrait view of one of the sacks, dfound in the same album. Similarly to Hangar 12, the hangar is filled with white sacks, akin to the ammonium nitrate sacks we all became familiar with in the last 3 years. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Field Work Landfill Waste

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Toxic Waste

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Church Highway Powerplant Smoke

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Electricity Energy Fuel

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Powerplant Resort Smoke

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Agriculture Electricity Energy

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Symptom(s) Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Documentation of symptoms resulting from exposure to toxic waste.

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Field Work Landfill Waste

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Construction Site

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Barrels containing toxic waste fall on the side of the road in Maameltein area while being transported to the port of Beirut, spilling their contents.

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Barrel

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Highway Powerplant Vehicle

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Electricity Energy Industry

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Public Works Water

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Power Station Residential Smoke

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Cable Pylon Residential

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Field Research Media Quarry Toxic Waste

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Beach Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Pierre Malychef

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Smoke

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Quarry

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Vegetation

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Pierre Malychef

Shot in Mohamed Najeeb Street Khartoum in 2022, street demonstrations that continued all the way since 2021 coup. right to left translation: “No amount of bullets can kill our dreams — we will be victorious” “Our martyrs are not dead — they live within our revolutionaries” Image: Ala Kheir

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Barrel

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Sea

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Field Research Portrait

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Port Ship

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

The ship Yvonne A docked at the fifth basin of the port of Beirut to be loaded with toxic waste barrels from the fake recuperation of Summer 1988. The ship, one out of four sent by the Italian embassy, was sunk before it reached Italy.

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Quarry

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Construction Site

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Field Research Residential Toxic Waste

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Toxic Waste

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Chnaniir gravel and sand quarry, May 1995. The earth is contaminated due to the storing of toxic waste in the quarry years before, making the extracted material unsuitable for building.

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Conference Toxic Waste

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Animal

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Waste Water

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Pierre Malychef

آلاء القيسي Alaa Alqaisi

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Highway Powerplant Vehicle

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Electricity Energy Industry

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

A symbol of "Harmful stow away from foodstuffs" on an orange barrel. We couldn’t find more information around the sources, and whether they were related to the Italian toxic waste trade brought to Lebanon through a deal between the Italian mafia and Lebanese Forces. The image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Power Station

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Ammonium Nitrate Atmospheric Pollution Damage Ecology Energy Explosion Military War

Image taken by Dr. Pierre Malychef documenting the 1989 Dora Port Explosion and its aftermaths on March 30th 1989. The photograph shows workers in a destitute hangar with a pressure-torn room post-explosion. Similarly to Hangar 12, the hangar is filled with white sacks, akin to the ammonium nitrate sacks we all became familiar with in the last 3 years. For more information on the explosion and these images, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Highway Power Station Residential Vehicle

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Electricity Energy Industry

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Pierre Malychef

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Power Station

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Toxic Waste

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Cable Pylon

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Map Photograph Reference

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Waste

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River

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Waste Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

"03- ّبلا مي".

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Portrait Quarry Residential Toxic Waste

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Construction Site

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Pierre Malychef

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Pierre Malychef

Image taken by Dr. Pierre Malychef documenting the 1989 Dora Port Explosion and its aftermaths on March 30th 1989. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Environment Meeting Portrait

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Smoke

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Quarry

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Diagram Photograph Reference

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Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Ammonium Nitrate Portrait Quarry

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Conference Portrait

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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry Residential

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Cistern Smoke Vehicle

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Damage Energy Fuel

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Pierre Malychef

تجمّع آلاف الفلسطينيين في رام الله لدعم المقاومة في غزة وإدانة حكم محمود عباس في السلطة الفلسطينية - أكتوبر 2023

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Environment Meeting

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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Chnaniir gravel and sand quarry, May 1995. The earth is contaminated due to the storing of toxic waste in the quarry years before, making the extracted material unsuitable for building.

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Hospital Portrait Public Health Symptom(s) Toxic Waste

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Sea

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Sea

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Ammonium Nitrate Energy Environment Explosion Military War Weapon

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Pierre Malychef

Image of a 50 KG sack of Ammonium Nitrate taken and developed by Dr. Pierre Malychef at the Dora Port, on March 30th 1989. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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explosion Fire Power Station Powerplant Smoke

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ليلة ١٧ آب ٢٠٢١: فيديو للحريق الذي اندلع في محطة تحويل كهرباء لبنان في قصقص بعد أن سمع دوي انفجار في المنطقة قد يكون ناجماً عن انفجار المحوّل الأساسي في الشركة

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Subordinate militia men managing an illegal quarry whose environmental impacts Pierre Malychef has been investigating and publishing against, planted a bomb in the mid-1980s in his first pharmacy in Jal el Dib. The bomb was luckily detonated in Maychef's absence. This image shows Malychef standing in front of the collateral damage.

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Residential Toxic Waste

Containers of toxic waste barrels kept on an empty plot of land in Antelias, close to the highway and amidst residential and commercial buildings.

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

According to the label, the content of this barrel is related to polyurethanes, produced by the British chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The barrel may be related to the toxic waste deal between the Italian mafia and the Lebanese Forces through its Italian division, Atlas Europol s.p.A. From 1982 till 1987, the chairman of the company was Sir John Harvey-Jones, a British naval commander during World War II and a naval intelligence specialist post-World War II, whose approach to the chemical business was focused on speed, more power into fewer hands, and high profit. The previous picture (probably of the back label) indicates that this barrel contains diphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (MDI), a light yellow-colored solid. It is not soluble in water. It may be toxic by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption; acute (short-term) inhalation of high concentrations of MDI may cause sensitization and asthma in humans. If in a solution it may or may not burn depending on the nature of the material and/or the solvent. It is used to produce polyurethane foams. The barrel is rusted and has seashells growing on it, signs that it was submerged in seawater for a certain period of time. The image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.

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Pierre Malychef

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Construction Site Powerplant

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River

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Marine Pollution Toxic Waste

"01- بلا كهربا".

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Cistern Construction Site Powerplant

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Quarry

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Herbology Laboratory Pharmacy Portrait

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Quarry

Canada Park – undercommons. Courtesy of Razan AlSalah.

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Powerplant

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Atmospheric Pollution

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Cement

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Container Port Ship

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Toxic Waste

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Residential Smoke

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Sea

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Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Blue gallon containing residual products from chemical industries as indicated by their label that also reads in Spanish "M.L.S.A. via Puerto Cabello", a town in Venezuela. We couldn’t find more information around the sources, and whether they were related to the Italian toxic waste trade brought to Lebanon through a deal between the Italian mafia and Lebanese Forces. The image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.