Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS

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The world-renowned photographer has received many awards, including the W Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, and his many books have been published to great acclaim. He is a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.He is currently based in Paris. Amazônia, Philharmonie de Paris, 2021; [41] Science Museum, London, 2021/22; [42] Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2022 [42] MAXXI, Rome, 2021/22; [43] Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, 2022/23; [44] Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, 2021/22; [45] California Science Center, Los Angeles, 2022, [46] Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, 2023/24. [47]

I think every photograph you take is a self-portrait of yourself. You end up photographing others how you would like to be photographed. Exactly. We are just one species among thousands of species. We appropriated the planet. It became “our” planet. We felt we had the right to destroy things. When you destroy a tree you destroy the houses of thousands of little creatures. What right do we have to do this? When we destroy the forest we destroy our own possibility of life. peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society— the land and life of a still pristine planet. 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.” My pictures gave me 10 times more pleasure than the reports I was working on. To be a photographer was, for me, an incredible way to express myself, an incredible way to the see the world from another point.”Often as photographers, we put too much emphasis on ourselves. We see ourselves as the principle character, and the subjects as the docile and passive. 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. imoebius (18 February 2022). " "Fruturos - Tempos Amazônicos" exhibition in Rio de Janeiro - ATTO" . Retrieved 2023-04-02. One of the best investments in terms of money I have made in life is traveling a lot. Traveling has helped me meet some fascinating people, whom have helped open up the world to me.

My meeting with Salgado took place in 2014, a year after the release of my book on coffee photographs. At the time of our meeting, I had just produced my book on coffee plantations in the Zona da Mata region, while Salgado was finishing his new book on coffee crops around the world. We met because a sympathetic friend and owner of a major coffee-producing property, made sure to introduce us. NIKON D600 + 16-35mm f/4 @ 24mm, ISO 2000, 1/60, f/4.0my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things, and it is very difficult to tell you whether I photograph in one style or another.”