In The Children: Refugees and Migrants Sebastião Salgado gives us portraits of children under the age of fifteen from Mozambique, Rwanda, Croatia, Burundi, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Angola, and many other countries who will bear the burden of an uncertain future. Part of a major exhibition at the United Nations in New York City during the Millenium Assembly in 2000, The Children is a companion volume to Salgado's Migrations. Sebastião Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. A former member of Magnum Photos and recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he has twice been named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. "[Salgado] is an artist: a man who sees, and in doing so helps us to see. In this monumental work Salgado discovers and reveals the world at the end of the millennium."

Sebastião Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. A former member of Magnum Photos and recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he has twice been named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography.