Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS

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Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS

Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS

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As a street photographer, your primary job is to document people, society, and humanity. You are drawn to people and street photography for one reason or another. But I can bet that you are a humanist. You are interested in people and humanity. You care for people. You are empathetic. You are interested in the lives of others. And you want to tell stories, capture emotions, and connect with these people on the streets. All great photographers work thinking of the aperture. That is the secret of the technique in photography. CONTROLLING the focus line. By that you impose a style, be it with blur or not, being aware of aperture is very important. Many photographers buy their lenses and they do not come out the same F / stop. That’s a bad sign. Have you ever wondered about that? Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis. The latter three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada, taken between 1986 and 1989. [11] He has also been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001. [12]

But I think regardless of how busy we are, or how much we have to work– there is always ways we can inject randomness and adventure into our everyday lives. Trabalho, uma arqueologia da era industrial. Portugal: Caminho. 1993. ISBN 978-972-21-0834-8. OCLC 81101769. A wall text explains that he wants us to contemplate "a way of life that is traditional and in harmony with nature". My sense is that this simple ambition will be thwarted by pictures of tribeswomen who've had bones forced through their lips and enlarged, year by year, until the protrusion resembles a pharaoh's beard; of scarified Ethiopians, their wounds created by hooks into which ash has been rubbed to create an infection and "promote scar growth", as the caption blandly puts it. Or the jarring photograph of an Upper Xingu girl posing for a tattoo, in which Salgado focuses his attentions on the body first and the ritual second (it is partially off-stage), emphatically turning the naked girl into a nude.

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So as a kind of dual restoration project—for himself and his Brazilian paradise lost—Salgado and his wife began reforesting his family property. There are now more than 2 million new trees there. Birds and other wildlife have returned in such numbers that the land has become a designated nature reserve. As his personal world regenerated, Salgado got an idea: For his next project, why not travel to unspoiled locales—places that double as environmental memory banks, holding recollections of earth’s primordial glories? His purpose, Salgado decided, “would not be to photograph what is destroyed but what is still pristine, to show what we must hold and protect.” He likes to quote a hopeful statistic: “45% of our planet is still what it was at the beginning.”

He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank. Therefore know that your photography is deeply influenced by your personal history, the subjects you studied in school, your family, relationships, and the way you see the world.In September and October 2007, Salgado displayed his photographs of coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink. [14] But I think being “old” is more of a state of mind and more of an attitude than your objective age. When you study topics like history, geopolitics, sociology, and anthropology– you can get a better understanding about society, how humans interact, and therefore end up making deeper images. Creo initiates and organises events and programming across three key strands: photography, film and contemporary art. Established in 2007 as World Photography Organisation, Creo has since grown in scope, furthering its mission of developing meaningful opportunities for creatives and expanding the reach of its cultural activities. Today, its flagship projects include the Sony World Photography Awards, Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Photo London and PHOTOFAIRS New York. Working in partnership with Angus Montgomery Arts, Creo helps deliver the group’s ventures, comprising some of the world’s leading art fairs. Taking its name from the Latin for ‘I create’, it is in this spirit that Creo sets out to empower and give agency to creative voices. www.creoarts.com Magnum Opus is the largest curated photographic solo exhibition that Sotheby’s has ever mounted, bringing together work from 40 years of Salgado’s career. It is a chance to see many of Salgado’s greatest hits, among them a striking shot of a mud-covered worker bent over in exhaustion while hauling a heavy load up out of the Serra Pelada goldmine; two members of the Mixe Indigenous community in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, arms outstretched while gazing out into the clouds as though they are about to fly off; and refugees from the 1983-85 Ethiopian famine huddled around a massive tree trunk while godlike rays of sunlight penetrate down diagonally around them.

I think a lot of photographers get discouraged after a while of shooting because they feel that their shooting is purposeless. I know that personally I encounter this feeling all the time. I start to question myself. I ask myself, “What is the purpose of my photography? Why do I shoot? Does this all really matter at the end of the day?” When we photograph people, there is a hidden connection between us (the photographer) and people on the streets (the subject). If it weren’t for this relationship, a photograph couldn’t be made.But then I slap myself in the face, and just go outside for a walk. I might drive to an unknown part of town, park, and walk around and shoot. I might jump on the subway and go into the city and explore and shoot. In France he studied for his Ph.D. and worked for a coffee organization that brought him to travel to Africa. On one of his trips to Africa, his wife Lélia gave him a camera (Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm lens) and it changed his life. Rather, try to save that money to travel. Studies have shown that happiness can only be “bought” if you spend it on experiences, not stuff. 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 disasters, environmental degradation and demographic pressure, and this new opus, Genesis, the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still-pristine planet. “Some 46% of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis,” Salgado reminds us. “We must preserve what exists.” The Genesis project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.

The Salt of the Earth (2014). Documentary about and with Salgado, directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. a b " Mr. Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado", American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Accessed 13 August 2014. That was 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998. Devastating. I felt so destroyed seeing thousands of people die with no possibility of them being buried properly. Piles of dead that were buried with bulldozers. After this is when we started the environmental project in Brazil. The book Migrations Taschen did was in 2000. The Africa book was in 2007. I did nine or ten trips to Africa afterwards for Genesis, photographing the tribes, the animals, the landscapes from a hot-air balloon. It was a celebration of life.Salgado’s quest to capture nature in its original state began in 2004. During his travels across the globe, he documented arctic and desert landscapes, tropical rainforests, marine and other wildlife, and communities still living according to ancestral traditions. GENESIS, a new opus is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society – the land and life of a still pristine planet. The GENESIS project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.



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