Video: Sebastião Salgado — The silent drama of photography

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado took up photography in his 30s, and the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world’s forgotten people and places.

— Sebastião Salgado, Serra Pelada, State of Para, Brazil, 1986

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— Sebastião Salgado, Greater Burhan Oil Field, Kuwait, 1991

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— Sebastião Salgado, Zo’é Indian hunter, Brazil, 2009