Natural states: the fragile black-and-white world of Sebastião Salgado

In this video, we are introduced to the black-and-white oeuvre of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, whose work captures natural environments and their inhabitants.

“What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph,” Salgado has said of his images. “What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures.”

In keeping with this desire, on April 7, ‘Amazônia’, an immersive exhibition of Salgado’s pictures of the Brazilian Amazon, featuring over 200 photographs and other media, will open at the Philharmonie de Paris, a complex of concert halls in the French capital.

Having travelled the Amazon region for six years, capturing its forest, rivers, mountains and indigenous people, Salgado’s pictures will invite visitors to see, hear and think about the future of biodiversity, and the place of the human species in the living world.

Following its Paris opening, ‘Amazônia’ will later go on a world tour, with its itinerary to include Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

View the original video here.

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