Sahel: The End of the Road

by Sebastião Salgado, Fred Ritchin, Orville Schell

Book Overview

In 1984 Sebasti?o Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520241703
• ISBN13: 9780520241701
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 11.3"