Salgado: 'Genesis' The Exhibition

Sebastião Salgado's last great photographic project, 'Genesis' has appeared regularly in The Guardian's Weekend supplement since September 2004. Four years in, he has sought out places that are still as pristine as they were in primeval times, places that provide hope..

...and finally, the images will be exhibited! (In London!)
Nov 10-Jan 26 2008 Hackelbury, 4 Launceston Place, W8 5RL



I saw the 'In Principio' exhibition last month and lets just say that putting his images online or in print doesn't do them justice! He achieves that 'Leica Glow' on everything no matter how low the light or awkward the subject.

Examples of Salgado's 'Genesis' images can be seen here and here and here and here and here!

Whilst this is an aside / whole different route to his 'usual' photography, Salgado insists that this is not so different as we are all animals fighting to survive.

Can't wait!

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Genius!

My first post... and as I don't know what exactly I want to put on this blog, I thought I would start with a photo by humanitarian photographer and all round photographic genius Sabastiao Salgado.



Apart from the obvious technical abilities of Salgado, (and his trusted M7 and Tri-x) there is the fact that he does what he does to help others, to tell their story as they are (more often than not,) less fortunate.

I guess this interest came from his background and degree in Economics. This photo is one of my favourites. Taken from his 'Workers' body of work, I have no doubt I will be posting more of his work.

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