{"id":5225,"date":"2025-05-01T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:50:21","slug":"the-reportage-the-devils-gold-by-luca-catalano-gonzaga-on-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/news\/the-reportage-the-devils-gold-by-luca-catalano-gonzaga-on-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"The reportage \u201cThe devil\u2019s gold\u201d by Luca Catalano Gonzaga on \u201cTime magazine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The reportage \u201cThe devil\u2019s gold\u201d by Luca Catalano Gonzaga on \u201cTime magazine\u201d\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every day, three hundred men leave the base camp at the slopes of the mountain to reach the top of the Ijen Kawah volcano in Eastern Java, Indonesia. They climb up three kilometres and then head downwards to the opening of the crater where the sulfur crystals lie. Nine hundred meters deep towards hell, defying the unbearable heat, rare ed air and complete darkness, without any protection. The sulfurous gas hits the throat, burns the lungs, makes tears spring from the eyes. Many prefer to work at night because the heat is more tolerable, putting a wet cloth in their mouth, in the vain hope of protecting themselves from the fumes and breathing better. A very hard kind of work which will end soon \u2013 the average life expectancy of the sulfur miners does not go beyond 50 years. The sulfur slabs are broken with the help of a metal pole and then carried in reed baskets that weigh 70 to 90 kilos. Then begins the return path of the 21st century sulfur picker, heading towards the volcano\u2019s entrance, in a precarious balance, carrying a huge load that deforms the spine, bends the legs and produces ulcers on the shoulders. All for the sake of what has always been known as \u201cThe devil\u2019s gold\u201d, very present in modern daily life: sulfur is used to re ne sugar, to produce sulfuric acid, and it can be found in many products of regular use such as medicines, cosmetics, matches, fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides.<\/p>

The reportage \u201cChild labour\u201d\u00a0is part of a wider project called \u201cInvisible people\u201d by Luca Catalano Gonzaga.\u00a0This project, is carried out by Witness Image and financially supported by Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation.<\/p>

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The reportage \u201cThe devil\u2019s gold\u201d by Luca Catalano Gonzaga on \u201cTime magazine\u201d Every day, three hundred men leave the base camp at the slopes of the mountain to reach the top of the Ijen Kawah volcano in Eastern Java, Indonesia. They climb up three kilometres and then head downwards to the opening of the crater where the sulfur crystals lie. Nine hundred meters deep towards hell, defying the unbearable heat, rare ed air and complete darkness, without any protection. The sulfurous gas hits the throat, burns the lungs, makes tears spring from the eyes. Many prefer to work at night because the heat is more tolerable, putting a wet cloth in their mouth, in the vain hope of protecting themselves from the fumes and breathing better. A very hard kind of work which will end soon \u2013 the average life expectancy of the sulfur miners does not go beyond 50 years. The sulfur slabs are broken with the help of a metal pole and then carried in reed baskets that weigh 70 to 90 kilos. Then begins the return path of the 21st century sulfur picker, heading towards the volcano\u2019s entrance, in a precarious balance, carrying a huge load that deforms the spine, bends the legs and produces ulcers on the shoulders. All for the sake of what has always been known as \u201cThe devil\u2019s gold\u201d, very present in modern daily life: sulfur is used to re ne sugar, to produce sulfuric acid, and it can be found in many products of regular use such as medicines, cosmetics, matches, fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides. The reportage \u201cChild labour\u201d\u00a0is part of a wider project called \u201cInvisible people\u201d by Luca Catalano Gonzaga.\u00a0This project, is carried out by Witness Image and financially supported by Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation. http:\/\/time.com\/3709945\/sulfur-miners_the-devils-gold_luca-catalano-gonzaga\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.witnessimage.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}