Earth Eternal<\/p>\n
A photographic homage to our planet<\/p>\n
\u201cIn GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.\u201d \u2014Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado<\/p>\n
On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebasti\u00e3o 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\u2014though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer\u2014the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who \u201calways preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images,\u201d shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely.<\/p>\n
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\u2014the land and life of a still-pristine planet. \u201cSome 46% of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis,\u201d Salgado reminds us. \u201cWe must preserve what exists.\u201d The GENESIS project, along with the Salgados\u2019 Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.<\/p>\n
Over 30 trips\u2014traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions\u2014Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in breathtaking beauty. What does one discover in GENESIS? The animal species and volcanoes of the Gal\u00e1pagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated Zo\u2019\u00e9 tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua; nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Juru\u00e1 rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska… and beyond. Having dedicated so much time, energy, and passion to the making of this work, Salgado calls GENESIS \u201cmy love letter to the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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