The Children employs stark, poignant black-and-white imagery to portray the reality of child migrant agricultural laborers. Sebastião Salgado’s photographs focus on the vulnerable and often invisible lives of refugee and migrant children caught in cycles of displacement and labor.

Through close, intimate portraits and scenes that reveal both hardship and fleeting moments of innocence, the book confronts themes of migration, survival, and childhood under duress. The 112-page volume, published by Aperture in 2000, assembles these images into a sobering visual narrative that refuses to obscure its subjects’ dignity.