Sebastiao Salgado

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The Human Family Around the World

1. Water Supplies are often far away from the refugee camps, people have to walk a long way or wait for hours for the distribution brought in by tank trucks. Zaire. 1994. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images

2. Rwandan refugee camp of Benako, Tanzania. 1994. photo
Photographs by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

3. Camp of "Granja Agricola", a squatters settlement where African migrants await permission to travel to the Spanish mainland, Melilla. Spanish enclave on the North African coast. 1997. photo
Photographs by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

4. The youths are sent away by their families, to avoid being forced to fight in the civil war, they head for northern Kenya to refugee camps run by the United Nations. Southern Sudan. 1993. photo
Photographs by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

5. Rwandan refugees at the hospital, run by a team of the Dutch branch of Medecins sans Frontieres, Camp at Katale, Zaire. 1994. photo
Photographs by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

6. Gypsies from Kosovo in the San Foca refugee center. Italy. 1998. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

7. Refugees from the Bosnian enclave of Bihac at the camp of Turanj. The town is heavily mined, and people, mostly children, got injured by exploding land mines. Turanj-Krajina (Croatian territory occupied by the serbs). 1994. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO/AMAZONAS Images/CONTACT Press Images.

8. On July 31st 1983 Iraqi soldiers took away all the men of several villages, they were never seen again. Today the daughters and widows still wait for their return or a confirmation of their death. Beharke, Iraqi Kurdistan. 1997. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO/AMAZONAS Images/CONTACT Press Images.

9. Around 245,000 Rwandan Hutu fled into Burundi in July 1994. Ethnic troubles erupted in Burundi, people fleeing killings headed for Tanzania whose borders closed. Burundi. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

10. Refugee from the Zepa enclave. Kladanj, central Bosnia. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

Leaving the Land for the Cities

1. With the men away in the cities, the women carry their goods to the market of Chimbote. Region of Chimborazo. Ecuador. 1998. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS images/ CONTACT Press Images.

2. A returning Mozambican refugee carries her bedding on her head and a baby on her back as she makes her way across the half destroyed Dona Ana Bridge over the Zambeze River. Mutarara, Mozambique. 1994. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

3. Babies playing on the roof of a FEBEM (foundation for Child Welfare) center in the Pacaembu district. Some 430 children live here, 35% of whom were abandoned on the streets, the others delivered at the center by parents no longer able to care for them. Sao Paolo, Brazil. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

4. After months of occupation of the Cuiaba plantation by landless families, the peasants celebrate the official expropriation. State of Sergipe, Brazil. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

5. The coffins of the nineteen peasants murdered on April 17, 1996 in Eldorado dos(?) Carajas, are taken by trucks for burials. State of Para, Brazil. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

6. Peasants who used to sit on the window ledges of their rural homes continue to do so in crowded apartment buildings. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

7. Peasants who used to sit on the window ledges of their rural homes continue to do so in crowded apartment buildings. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

8. Construction of the Rasuna complex of apartment and office buildings in the commercial and financial district of Kuningan. Jakarta, Indonesia. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

9. Church Gate Station. Bombay, India. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

10. Coal mining has damaged vast extensions of farmland and forests. Illegally, peasants collect coal and pre-burn it to remove toxic residue and then sell the coal. State of Bihar, India. 1997. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

11. Across the river looms the modern financial district of Pudong, with the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in the foreground and the Grand Hyatt Hotel to the right. Shanghai, China. 1998. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

Children Today: Men and Women of the New Century

1. The Natinga School camp for displaced Sudanese. Southern Sudan. 1995. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

2. The Sakhi camp for refugees from Tajikistan. Northern Afghanistan. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

3. Displaced Indians camp in Polho. State of Chiapas, Mexico. 1998. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

4. The Shamak camp for displaced population at Pul-i-Kumri. Northern Afghanistan. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

5. Landless peasants attend a political meeting organized by the MST, the Landless Movement, In preparation for a land occupation. State of Parana, Brazil. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

6. A settlement of landless peasants in Rio Bonita Do Iguacu. Parana State, Brazil. 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

7. Refugees from the Bihac pocket waiting for delivery of the letters from relatives and friends who stayed behind; mail is delivered once a week by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Batnoga-Krajina (Croatian territory occupied by the Serbs). 1994. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

8. A Yanomami Indian child at Lafakabuco in the area of Surucucus. Roraima State. Brazil. 1998. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

9. Displaced children in Mopeia who have lost contact with their families. Zambeze Province, Mozambique. 1994. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.

10. Refugees from Kabul in the Shamak camp in Pul-i-Kumri. Afghanistan 1996. photo
Photograph by Sebastiao SALGADO / AMAZONAS Images / CONTACT Press Images.