Refugees - Sebastiao Salgado

Rwandan refugee camp of Benako, Tanzania. 1994.

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 Paulo, Brazil. 1996.

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.

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.

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.

Rwandan refugees at the hospital, run by a team of the Dutch branch of Medecins sans Frontieres, Camp at Katale, Zaire. 1994.

Gypsies from Kosovo in the San Foca refugee center. Italy. 1998.

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.

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.

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.

Refugee from the Zepa enclave. Kladanj, central Bosnia. 1995.

With the men away in the cities, the women carry their goods to the market of Chimbote. Region of Chimborazo. Ecuador. 1998.

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.

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.

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.

Construction of the Rasuna complex of apartment and office buildings in the commercial and financial district of Kuningan.
Jakarta, Indonesia. 1996.

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.

Refugees from Kabul in the Shamak camp in Pul-i-Kumri. Afghanistan 1996.

Church Gate Station. Bombay, India. 1995.

 

After months of occupation of the Cuiaba plantation by landless families, the peasants celebrate the official expropriation.
State of Sergipe, Brazil. 1996.

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.