Sebastião Salgado is a famous Brazilian photographer whose work has been developed in some of the most remote places of our planet. This led to the project Genesis that includes a book and, from the photographs that make up, 245 are displayed in large format, in National Cordage in Lisbon between April 10 and August 2 . As the word implies, the project Genesis want to translate the origins of Earth and show it as a “pure planet, large and majestic”, being a “love letter the planet, “says Sebastião Salgado on this project developed from 2004 to 2011. His work aims to show little known places or so remote that remain unexplored, capturing nature and its relationship with the man in its purest state. Furthermore, intends to translate not only the grandeur, but also the fragility of our planet, warning of our influence on it and the importance we hold its preservation.
According to the newspaper Público, their motivation this direction resulted in a fantastic photographic exhibition of animals, volcanoes, deserts, jungles, icebergs and communities virtually unknown from the Amazon to New Guinea.
Fruit of the same project, was produced a documentary entitled “Salt of the Earth “which also debut on April 10 in theaters, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, son of Sebastião Salgado. In this film, Sebastian has some inherent in some pictures stories, particularly those relating to the project “Exodus”, for which photographed men, women and children dying of hunger, Uganda and Mali between 1994 and 2000. They are also narrated the stories of the most striking images on your “Earth” project, whose subject are ecosystems unexplored by man, starting in the Galapagos Islands.
The film is being shown in rooms of Lisbon and Porto, and also sessions scheduled in Viana do Castelo, Abrantes, Viseu, Braga, Coimbra, Santarém, Setúbal, Leiria and Guard.
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