Sebastião Salgado's photographs have been shown around the world. In From My Land to the Planet the photographer tells us the story of his most famous reportages: from the black and white portraits of unknown men and women, workers or refugees, to the more recent Genesis project, a portrait of the most incontaminated places of our planet. With a kindness and a disarming simplicity, Salgado rebuilds his path, exposes his beliefs, makes us witnesses of his emotions. In this volume his talent as a storyteller and the authenticity of a man who knows how to combine activism and professionalism, talent and generosity, clearly emerge. The reader will discover fascinating stories of every corner of the world, both near and remote, from Africa to the Americas, and then again the birth of the Instituto Terra, of the Genesis project, of Magnum Photos and Amazonas Images.
Biografie
Sebastião Salgado, geb. 1944 in Aimorés, Brasilien, studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaften und begann 1973 seine Karriere als Fotograf. Seine Fotoprojekte, für die er über hundert Länder bereiste, sind in seinen Büchern dokumentiert, darunter Other Americas, Sahel, l homme en détresse, Sahel, el fin del camino, Arbeiter: Zur Archäologie des Industriezeitalters und Migrations. Salgado erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, und seine Arbeiten wurden und werden in aller Welt ausgestellt.
