Mardi 23 Juin 2015 11:39:33 par Louis Royer dans Expositions

To celebrate our 35th anniversary year we begin our exhibition schedule returning to one of the most poignant and profound photographers we have had the great privilege of working with over the years, Sebastião Salgado. We are very pleased to be bringing Salgado's work to Santa Fe once again.

© Sebastião Salgado

Salgado's powerful and heart-rending images have become icons of the human condition: suffering, ignoble exploitation and degradation; dignity, beauty, eternal hope and survival. It is difficult to look at these images and remain unaffected. Once seen, you are shocked into a new perception of reality. These photographs are brutally frank: images of hunger, suffering and death in the Sahel region of Africa and Ethiopia; remarkable documentation of Brazil's Serra Pelada gold mine, where 50,000 men reduced a mountain to a 600 foot deep crater searching the earth for nuggets of gold; poignant images of peasant life in remote areas of Central and South America that tell of a marginal existence and at the same time portray a vision of dignity and resiliency in the soul of mankind.

© Sebastião Salgado

" I very much like to work on long-term projects...There is time for the photographer and the people in front of the camera to understand each other. There is time to go to a place and understand what is happening there. ...When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him " - Sebastião Salgado