Sebastião Salgado Beharke, Iraqi Kurdistan: On July 31, 1981, Iraqi soldiers arrived unexpectedly and took away all the men in every family; they were never seen again. Under Muslim law, women cannot remarry, so they are left waiting.
Sebastião Salgado Workers under contract to truck owners load trucks with coal, a dirty and exhausting job paid only twenty-two rupees ($1.30) per day.
