Protesters flee for their lives after police opened fire on a peaceful crowd at the Sharpeville Massacre on 21st March 1960. After a day of demonstrations, a crowd gathered around the fence securi (...)
ng the police compound. The South African police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others. The casualties, most of whom were shot in the back as they fled, included 29 children. While sources disagree about whether the people were rowdy or not, all agree that they were unarmed and protesting peacefully. In present-day South Africa, 21 March is celebrated as a public holiday in honour of human rights and to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre. 1960. Transvaal, now part of Gauteng. Sharpeville. South Africa. © Ian Berry / Magnum Photos
Bare-handed men and boys prepare to drag a huge load by hawser in the ship-breaking yard. Huge tankers are driven at full throttle and high tide on to the beach where they are broken up. Dhakin Sha (...)
tialbur in the Lalbag district just north of Chittagong. Bangladesh. 2000. © Ian Berry / Magnum Photos
Galician mariscaderos (shellfish-gatherers) wade out each day at the right tide time through chest-high water, sometimes in atrocious weather, with their equipment (long-handled scoop) and hauling (...)
a basket on a large inflated inner tube. The scoop is pushed along the seabed to dislodge the clams which are then collected into the basket in the inner tube. On their return they queue to have their clams weighed which are auctioned later that day in the market on the sea front. Carril. Galicia, Spain. 2008. © Ian Berry / Magnum Photos