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DANIEL BELTRA
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Beauty in the most tragic sense

Deforestation has been used to create new palm-oil plantations like this one Beltrá shot from the air over Kuala Kuayan in Indonesia. Felled trees litter the scene. "I don't pretend to be objective - I try to be fair," Beltrá says. "I hope that people see what I see and feel they need to do something. But I don't want to tell them what."