Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts 1998

In 1986, he published the book “Other Americas”, which reflects several years of his work in Latin America and which also formed the basis for an exhibition. The photographs he took over a period of seven years in the areas of famine and drought in the African region of Sahel in cooperation with the French relief organisation Doctors without Borders resulted in several exhibitions and two books. As of 1986, and over a period of 6 years, Salgado devoted himself to an extensive project, that of recording through his camera images of people from all over the world at work. The result, “Workers”, was published as a book  in 1993.