Drying Peat Slabs on Wire Fence in South Sudan

Golden evening light washes the South Sudanese wetland, turning the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. Dark, rectangular slabs of peat rest in neat rows along a weathered wire fence, their rough, fibrous surfaces catching the low sun. The fence line cuts horizontally across the frame, separating the damp, textured bog below from the vast, empty horizon above. Shadows stretch long and soft across the spongy ground, showing the stillness of the monsoon landscape. Each slab holds the weight of the drying process, standing in sharp silhouette against the glowing backdrop. at the edge is the thin wire of the fence biting into the dark, organic edge of a peat block.