Sebastiao salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the genesis project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Taken over the course of an epic eight-year expedition, the images are divided into five broad geographic chapters: planet south, sanctuaries, africa, northern spaces, amazonia, and pantanal. In genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. Sebastião salgadoon a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old sebastião salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images, shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely.Raised on a farm in brazil, salgado possessed a deep love and respect for nature he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works salgado has produced in his acclaimed career, three long-term projects stand out: workers 1993 , documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world migrations 2000 , a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger, natural disaste...
