Lives bathed in oil: how Chloe Dewe Mathews captured the Caspian coast | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
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In 2010, the young British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews journeyed overland from Britain to China, spending several months hitchhiking and camping around the shores of the Caspian Sea. Last week, she won the British Journal of Photography’s international photography award for her series, Caspian, which focuses in part on the city of Naftalan in Azerbaijan, and its curious trade in petroleum-based therapeutic treatments.
The crude oil produced in Naftalan is famous through the region for its medicinal qualities and has made the city a spa town, where people come to sit in baths of dark brown-black oil in the hope of curing common ailments like rheumatism, arthritis and psoriasis.
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