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Thirty trips and 245 photographs – Morning Post

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Sebastião Salgado and his wife, Lelia Salgado

04/10/2015 19:02

Thirty trips and 245 photos

Sebastião Salgado returns 15 years later to ‘Genesis’.

 By Duarte Faria

The result of a work developed over eight years in 30 trips around the World outside, the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, 71, returned to Portugal, which had not visited for 15 years, to inaugurate the exhibition ‘Genesis’. In all, 245 photos, black and white, exposed in the National Cordage (Lisbon), portraits of the last strongholds natural and human on the planet, the Antarctic Africa, through Asia, America and Europe. “There was very difficult photos, access was often not easy,” he said yesterday the photographer, the day he was inaugurated the exhibition, which will be open until August 2. “But it was worth, what I got was privileged to be in these places, see what we saw,” he added. While inaugurating the exhibition in Portugal, after passing through London, Paris, New York and Barcelona, ​​Sebastião Salgado sees hit theaters (premiered yesterday) the documentary that brings together sequences of his travels, shot by his son, Julian. ‘Salt of the Earth’ featured collaboration of German director Wim Wenders. Unstoppable, Salgado is already preparing a book and an exhibition on the coffee, and a paper on the Amazonian communities, possibly his last work.

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