Sebastião Salgado: Photography and Ecology
Gordon Talley
(His biography and course is connected with the Evans/Frank photography course.)
One Class
10:30 – 12:00
November 16
Salgado rose to the top echelon of photojournalists — until he had seen far too much war, famine, and despair. To heal himself, in 1998 he returned to the forests of his native Brazil and rebuilt the devastation of his family’s farm, plant by plant. His effort became a model of ecological reclamation. Renewed, he again set out, this time to document the beauty and humanity of planet Earth. We’ll listen to him tell his story and look at photos both before and after his rebirth, especially the exquisite images of his masterful photo book, Genesis (2013).