Art of disaster: photographs go under the hammer for Samoa

Charlie Bibby: Barack Obama meets Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street (2009)
Photograph: Charlie Bibby

Associated Press agency: England's soccer captain Bobby Moore holds aloft the Fifa World Cup (1966)
Photograph: AP

David MA Gould: Manoosh the Boatman, Agra, India (2004)
Photograph: David MA Gould

Munem Wasif: Young children look for small fish in the mud, Vamia, Satkhira (2009)
Photograph: Munem Wasif/VU/Prix Pictet Ltd

David Corio: Ian Dury backstage at Brighton Top Rank (1981)
Photograph: David Corio

Jane Bown: Donovan (1965)
Photograph: Jane Bown

Sukey Parnell: Grace and Liberty (2006)
Photograph: Sukey Parnell

Martin Roemers: Russian WW2 veteran Polina, Moscow (2004)
Photograph: Martin Roemers

Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning: A member of the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos, a human rights group trying to find out the whereabouts of their relatives who disappeared as a result of the military repression in Chile (2006)
Photograph: Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning

Trevor Leighton: Harry Hill (1999)
Photograph: Trevor Leighton

Tony McGee: Ed Bunker, crime writer and actor (1996)
Photograph: Tony McGee

Annabel Cook: Pastor's daughter, Samoa (2004)
Photograph: Annabel Cook

Toby Smith: Ratcliffe on Soar (2009)
Photograph: Toby Smith

Tom Hunter: The Vale of Rest (2000)
Photograph: Tom Hunter

Sarah Bustamante-Brauning: Grandmother's House (2007)
Photograph: Sarah Bustamante-Brauning

David Stewart: Cabbage dress (1995)
Photograph: David Stewart

Lottie Davis: Ex Caelo Lux: Chandelier (2009)
Photograph: Lottie Davis

Jillian Edelstein: Porcupine Quills, Sangoma (2003)
Photograph: Jillian Edelstein