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DANIEL BELTRA
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Beauty in the most tragic sense

A road is the only thing separating rain forest and recently logged and burned land in Jambi province, Indonesia, in this image Beltrá took in 2009. Lots of photographers are doing amazing work showing how beautiful nature is, he says, "but I feel almost as if there's no time for that right now. There're issues that are so much more urgent and need to be exposed."