As a social documentary photographer, Sebastiäo Salgado uses photography as a means of identifying the political, economic and environmental hardships throughout the world. His photographs of Africa, a strong focus of his work for the last thirty years, document displaced populations and landscapes throughout Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Mali, among other locales. Embedding himself within various tribes and cultures, Salgado provides a first-hand visual account of the contemporary situations within these underdeveloped countries. From the isolated individual in the barren landscape, as seen in the present lot, to the group of children in the crowded classroom, as seen in lot 161, his photographs, like all historic examples of documentary photography, tell a unifying story indicative of a larger global narrative.