Paolo Woods is a photographer who teaches you about what the world can look like. The man in this image is bathing in crude oil, the photographer's caption is below. Please look at his extended project on oil, it's just amazing.
598. AZERBAIJAN / Baku / 13 March 2003
A man takes a bath in black gold. In Baku The 'Naftalan' clinic offers crude oil baths as a cure for arthritis, rheumatism, spondylitus, eczema, sciatica, infertility of the ovaries and radiculitis. Somehow the people of Baku seems convinced that oil will resolve all their problems. Oil has always played a main role in the history of the city; from when it propelled the Zoroastrian temples that Marco Polo speaks about to the first pipelines build here by the Nobel brothers in 1873. After the year of soviet dominance now it is the turn of the western companies to heavily invest on the shores of the Caspian sea.
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