‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures
As the photographer turns 80, we look back as some of his most striking images from around the world. A selection of his work can be seen at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 16 March to 15 April
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A girl selling toffee apples near Guatemala City in 1978
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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One early morning in 1995, after a night of walking, refugees from Tigray hide under the trees to avoid the surveillance of Ethiopian airplanes
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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The Serra Pelada mine in Para, Brazil, in 1986: a muddy manmade hole the size of a football field, where tens of thousands of men come to look for gold
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Kuwait oil fields, taken in 1991
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Thousands of rural workers, who had occupied the Cuiabá Farm in north-east Brazil with their families for months, are told that the land is finally theirs, in a 1996 photograph
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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A marine iguana is captured on Rábida Island in the Galápagos in 2004 trying to regulate its body temperature by lying flat and exposing as much body area to the sun as possible
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Xingu Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil, taken in 2005
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Ice formations on the Antarctic peninsula, captured in 2005
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Chinstrap penguins in the South Sandwich Islands, 2009
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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The Juruá River in Brazil, 2009
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Yanomami people, from the village of Maturaca, look at the sacred Yaripo, or Pico da Neblina mountain, the highest in Brazil, in 2014
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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Yara Asháninka, the eldest daughter of Wewito Piyãko and Auzelina Asháninka, is photographed in the Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous territory in 2016. The small paint designs on her face indicate that she is not yet engaged
Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/NB Pictures
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