ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Zouarete, Mauritania - 24 January, 2016:
Passengers in the train full of Iron, after leaving the mining town Zouarete in the middle of the Sahara desert.

The Iron Train is one of the longest train in the world, the train is about 2.5 km. A journey that goes from Nouadhibouh to Zouerate, totaling 652 km in the middle of the Sahara desert that lasts about 20 hours. An epic journey where residents, poor and penniless use dangerous train to visit relatives in the homeland or carrying goods such as live animals. High temperatures during the day and very low temperatures during the night makes the journey not easy. But the worst is the dust that is produced by wagons full of iron minerals that come from a mine from 30km of Zouarate to be unloaded in cargo boats in the port of Nouadhibouh.

AUTHOR
Born in Compiègne, France, in 1987, but since 10 years living in northern Portugal, near OPorto.

Daniel Rodrigues became a professional photographer after the passage by the Portuguese Institute of Photography (2008) and has worked in Correio da Manhã and Global Images agency, responsible for photographs in newspapers as Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias and O Jogo.

In 2013, Daniel won the World Press Photo, in the category "Daily Life", with a photograph of soccer captured in Guinea Bissau. In the same year, the whole work about football in Guinea Bissau was honored in Prémio Estação Imagem.

Now Daniel is currently based in Portugal. He works as a freelance photographer.

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