DE MA TERRE A LA TERRE

In this book, Sebastião Salgado talks for the first time about his militant commitment and his convictions as a photographer, not with images, but with words.

The exclusive reflections of Sebastião Salgado, one of the greatest photographers alive today, on his militant commitment to the preservation of the planet. A hymn to nature, beauty, and the beauty of nature. Sebastião Salgado's photographs are famous worldwide. His black and white photos, his portraits of the anonymous, especially workers or refugees, are renowned for their incandescent use of light, their power, and the natural dignity their subjects express. In 2013, after eight years of reportage, he put together a show with “Genesis”, a series of exhibitions in Europe, Brazil, Canada and the United States featuring places on the planet that still remain untainted by industrialization. A hymn to nature. His landscapes, his portraits of animals, of men and women who live far from modern civilisation always evoke the same moving humanism. In this book, Sebastião Salgado talks for the first time about his militant commitment and his convictions as a photographer, not with images, but with words. Reliving the history of his photo-reportages in over a hundred countries and his personal history, we follow him from Brazil to Paris where he created the Amazonas Images agency with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado. He tells of their work on long-term reportages that covered years, becoming the subject of exhibitions, books, and publications in the international press, and of his love for photography. He takes us on a journey covering the world he crisscrosses over and over again, to contemplate, to understand, and to reveal his reflections. Born in Brazil in 1944, Sebastião Salgado lives in Paris. With a degree in economics, he worked at the Organisation international du café before becoming a photographer. Member of Sygma, Gamma and then Magnum photo agencies, he founded Amazonas Images in 1994 with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado. Together, they also created the Terra foundation, devoted to replanting the Brazilian forest.