“In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.” —Sebastião Salgado
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There’s a line from Henry David Thoreau that’s an old favorite of environmentalists: “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Not many people have taken that idea so much to heart as the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who spent much of the past nine years trekking to the last wild places on earth to take the pictures collected in his new photography book, Genesis (Taschen; 520 pages), a window into the primordial corners of creation." - Richard Lacayo, NYTimes - LightBox - In the Beginnings: Sebastião Salgado's Genesis - LightBox
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"Many of the communities he photographed have only made contact with the outside world in the past few decades. He says he has no desire to find people who remain ‘undiscovered’. “I believe these people should stay as they are. In the Amazon, it has been estimated that there are at least 50 groups that have had no contact with what we call ‘civilisation’. The people I photograph have been contacted. Ninety-five per cent of them know what a camera is and what a photographer is. But they still live in equilibrium with their natural environments in a traditional way.” - Canon Interviews - Canon Professional Network - Salgado's Genesis project
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Here are a few related links about Sebastião Salgado:
- Art - Sebastião Salgado - Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action ...
- Salgado. Genesis - TASCHEN.com
- Images for Sebastião Salgado
- In the Beginnings: Sebastião Salgado's Genesis - LightBox
- Masters of Photography: Sebastiao Salgado
- Sebastião Salgado News - The New York Times
- Genesis - Sebastião Salgado
- News for Sebastião Salgado genesis
- Canon Professional Network - Salgado's Genesis project
