
The first day of installation of the camp of Benako for the Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu refugees, Tanzania
A vast sea of humanity stretches across the Tanzanian landscape as thousands of Rwandan refugees establish the Benako camp, their makeshift shelters and gathered belongings forming an overwhelming testament to mass displacement. Salgado's masterful use of gelatin silver print renders the scene in stark, luminous black and white, transforming an overwhelming human tragedy into a composition of both documentary power and haunting visual poetry. The sweeping scale of the image captures the simultaneous chaos and resilience of survival, as individuals and families carve out small spaces of existence within an almost incomprehensible collective crisis.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, printed later.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
October 3, 2017
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