‘I was driving through the desert ... I like pictures with not much in them, not too many distractions.' Phillips has released a self-published book, Salt, through Perimeter Books.

From diverse viewing points the massive salt flats may look like desert covered by water, snow, or just like scenic mountains and hills in some places. When ancient Lake Bonneville dried up ...

India is one of the world's top salt producers. Most of the country's salt comes from the desert of the Little Rann of Kutch. Here, the Agariya people do the dangerous job of farming salt.