maandag, mei 26, 2003
Sebastiao Salgado is is embarking on perhaps his most ambitious venture -- one that will take a decade to complete and could prove his final great photographic undertaking. Rather than viewing it as an ending, Salgado believes it will represent a point of departure for his vision of the world and has called the project Genesis. Chronicling the last places on earth unscathed by modern man, Genesis will sit alongside his two earlier collections, Workers and Exodus, to complete a groundbreaking trilogy.
Genesis should logically have come first, but I wasn't mature enough to see what needed to be photographed. Now I am. I'll be 70 by the time I finish work on this and can't imagine that I'll want to start on another major project. That doesn't matter. Everything that comes after the Genesis I have in some ways already photographed.
In Genesis, he hopes to photograph some of the 46 percent of the world that is not destroyed by mankind and is planning adventurous trips that will carry him deep into the wilderness in search of pristine landscapes.
It will mark a departure from his usual photographs, which tend to place people at the heart of the image. In another departure, Salgado is also planning to photograph wild animals and says he will spend months on the Galapagos islands and in African national parks to get to know his subjects. The third section of the project will home in on primitive tribes and nomads, while the fourth and final part will look at remote rural communities little touched by the modern world.
If I go back to these groups I believe I will find what we were like 4,000-5,000 years ago. I want to make people think about what we need to preserve, what we need to keep as reference points for mankind.
Bron: Reuters.
Genesis should logically have come first, but I wasn't mature enough to see what needed to be photographed. Now I am. I'll be 70 by the time I finish work on this and can't imagine that I'll want to start on another major project. That doesn't matter. Everything that comes after the Genesis I have in some ways already photographed.
In Genesis, he hopes to photograph some of the 46 percent of the world that is not destroyed by mankind and is planning adventurous trips that will carry him deep into the wilderness in search of pristine landscapes.
It will mark a departure from his usual photographs, which tend to place people at the heart of the image. In another departure, Salgado is also planning to photograph wild animals and says he will spend months on the Galapagos islands and in African national parks to get to know his subjects. The third section of the project will home in on primitive tribes and nomads, while the fourth and final part will look at remote rural communities little touched by the modern world.
If I go back to these groups I believe I will find what we were like 4,000-5,000 years ago. I want to make people think about what we need to preserve, what we need to keep as reference points for mankind.
Bron: Reuters.
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