Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado
In 1984 and 1985, the region of Sahel in Africa suffered a drought at a scale that it had never reached before, while in certain countries, such as Chad and Ethiopia, war was raging on. Due to, or thanks to, the drought, the exodus was amplified and drove populations of people out from their villages to places where they could hope to survive.Read more
Sebastião Salgado spent several months photographing the catastrophe in Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Eritrea, and worked closely with the Doctors Without Borders team. These images have made their appearance in the world after being published by international news outlets.
The books Sahel, l'homme en détresse, published by Prisma Presse in 1986, Sahel - El fin del camino, published by the Comunidad de Madrid in 1988, and Sahel, The End of the Road, published by the University of California Press in The United States in 2004, are being sold with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
