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a man carrying mirrors with people reflected in them, Kenya
July 19, 2015

Mirrored Gazes

Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, sustains the tribes in Kenya’s remote north—but projects upstream threaten its lifeblood. Here, a man sells mirrors in the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Located a hundred miles from Lake Turkana, the UN camp holds 180,000 refugees who fled conflicts in Sudan, Somalia, and other nations.

See more pictures from the August 2015 feature story “Last Rites for the Jade Sea?”

Photograph by Randy Olson

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