Sebastiao Salgado: Children

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Innocence on the run: Sebastiao Salgado`s focus series on child migrants & refugees. In every crisis situation, children are the greatest victims. Physically weak, they are often the first to succumb to hunger, disease, & dehydration. Innocent to the workings & failings of the world, they are unable to understand why there is danger, why there are people who want to hurt them, or why they must leave, perhaps quite suddenly, & abandon their schools, their friends, & their home. In this companion series to Exodus, Sebastiao Salgado presents 90 portraits of the youngest exiles, migrants, & refugees. His subjects are from different countries, victims to different crises, but they are all on the move, & all under the age of 15. Through his extensive refugee reportage, what struck Salgado about these boys & girls was not only the implicit innocence in their suffering but also their radiant reserves of energy & enthusiasm, even in the most miserable of circumstances. From roadside refuges in Angola & Burundi to city slums in Brazil & sprawling camps in Lebanon & Iraq, the children remained children: they were quick to laugh as much as to cry, they played soccer, splashed in dirty water, got up to mischief with friends, & were typically ecstatic at the prospect of being photographed. For Salgado, the exuberance presented a curious paradox.