Sebastião Salgado Sugar-cutting brigades work in regions and fields where machines are impractical. More than one-third of Cuban production is hand-cut, and workers receive special bonuses.
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 place a new wellhead in an oil well that had been damaged by Iraqi explosives
Sebastião Salgado Church Gate is the terminus station of the Western railroad line, built by the British; the railroad system covers much of India. The trains are notorious for being dangerously overcrowded.
