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This restored print of Margot Benacerraf's film portrays a day in the life of three families living in one of the harshest places on earth Araya, an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. For 450 years, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt was manually collected and stacked into glowing white pyramids. Benacerraf captures the grueling working of these salineros in breathtaking high-contrast black-and-white images.

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