sebastião salgado

intro’d to Sebastião via this trailer as tweeted by Nikola:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/watch-trailer-for-sebastiao-salgados-the-salt-of-the-earth-doc/

as a witness of the human condition

shining a light on the fates of the outcast

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ted 2013

The silent drama of photography

i lived inside of photography

i saw rwanda the total brutality..

he said – you are not sick, you are dying

the land was dead like me..

trees.. like hair

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Sebastião Salgado (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of this work have been presented throughout the world. Longtime gallery director Hal Gould considers Salgado to be the most important photographer of the early 21st century.

Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded Foreign Honorary Membership of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and was awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.