Tigrayrefugees hide under trees to avoid the surveillance of Ethiopian government planes. Authorities want to stop them fleeing to Sudan. Ethiopia, 1985
Kafue National Park, Zambia. 2010
Bela Yawanawá, from the village of Mutum, with a headdress and painted face. Rio Gregório indigenous territory, state of Acre, Brazil, 2016
Dinka cattle camp at Kei. Southern Sudan, 2006
Thousands of men covered in mud struggle across this manmade hole, the size of a football field, called Serra Pelada, in Para, Brazil. In 1980, a cowhand first discovered a gold nugget in a stream. He sold it in a nearby town, and two weeks later 10,000 garimpeiros or golddiggers arrived. So far the largest nugget weighted 63.39kg. The mine is open from September to January in the dry season. Serra Pelada, state of Para, Brazil, 1986
A girl selling toffee apples near Guatemala City, Guatemala 1978. Sebastião Salgado, who now lives in Paris, remained haunted by these faces long after he left his native Brazil in the late 60s. Over a seven-year period that seemed to take him back centuries, he traveled to Brazil’s north-east and through Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico
Workers struggle to fix a damaged oil well after Saddam Hussein’s forces set hundreds alight during the Gulf war. Kuwait, April 1991
Men of the Yali people wearing koteka, or penis gourd. Papua New Guinea, 2010
Landless workers in Cuiabá Farm, Sertão de Xingó, Sergipe state, Brazil