{"id":655487,"date":"2013-05-01T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75269"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:40:44","slug":"sebastio-salgado-a-gallery-of-spectacular-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655487","title":{"rendered":"Sebastião Salgado: A gallery of spectacular photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The vast tail of a Southern right whale, photographed near Argentina in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ask photojournalists to name a peer they admire, and Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado’s name is sure to crop up. The Brazilian is renowned for the long-term projects he undertakes, devoting years at a time to documenting the story of a particular people or the evolution of a certain place. \"Sebasti\u00e3oSebasti\u00e3o Salgado: The silent drama of photography<\/span><\/a>As he describes in the talk he gave at TED2013<\/a>, his attention to detail and his personal attachment to his subjects caused health problems that nearly killed him.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, he didn’t give up. His most recent project is Genesis,<\/em> which he describes as \u201cmy love letter to the planet\u201d and for which he spent eight years traveling the world to photograph humans, animals and nature in their native glory. (To read more details about Salgado’s process, see this\u00a0rather lovely Q&A<\/a>\u00a0with TED photographer Ryan Lash.)\u00a0The resulting black-and-white images include the astonishing shot, above, of a\u00a0Southern right whale, which he photographed in the Vald\u00e9s Peninsula in Argentina in 2004. Together, the series\u00a0forms the focus of a book (including a vast, two-volume edition<\/a> that costs $9,000 and comes complete with a wooden stand designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando; mere mortals can pick up a hardcover version<\/a> for $69.99). There’s also a documentary, Shade and Light<\/a><\/em>, filmed by Salgado’s son and Wim Wenders, and exhibitions<\/a> in cities around the world.<\/p>\n

The scale is appropriate. This is truly breathtaking work. And, for all that the scenes Salgado captures will likely feel alien to most of us, the images are imbued with no less than the spirit of humanity. If that sounds overblown, seriously, check these out:<\/p>\n

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An iceberg photographed on the Antarctic Peninsula. Note the “castle tower,” at top right, apparently carved in the ice by wind erosion. (2005.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil\u2019s Mato Grosso state. (2005.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Mursi and the Surma women in Ethiopia are, Salgado says, the last women in the world to wear lip plates. It’s unclear precisely why or how this custom evolved, but it is a mark of women of high birth. (2007.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Teureum is the leader of the Mentawai clan, which lives on Siberut Island in West Sumatra. The shaman is preparing a filter for sago. (2008.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Women of the Zo\u2019\u00e9 village of Towari Ypy in Brazil. (2009.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Look, ma! No hands! Salgado photographed these chinstrap penguins on icebergs between the Zavodovski and Visokoi islands in the South Sandwich Islands, near Antarctica. (2009.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shot from Navajo Native American territory, this breathtaking image captures the junction of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers, at the gateway to the Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona in the United States. (2010.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Light streams across an elephant disappearing into the bush. Kafue National Park, Zambia. (2010.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Nenet people, living deep within the Yamal peninsula in Siberia, inside the Arctic Circle. (2011.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The vast tail of a Southern right whale, photographed near Argentina in 2004. Ask photojournalists to name a peer they admire, and Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado’s name is sure to crop up. The Brazilian is renowned for the long-term projects he undertakes, devoting years at a time to documenting the story of a particular people or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}