{"title":"Books by Sebastiao Salgado","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780520241701","title":"Sahel – The End of the Road","description":"In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest and most important work to an American audience for the first time. Twenty years after the photographs were taken, \"Sahel: The End of the Road\" is still painfully relevant.   Born in Brazil in 1944, Sebastiao Salgado studied economics in Sao Paulo and Paris and worked in Brazil and England. While traveling as an economist to Africa, he began photographing the people he encountered. Working entirely in a black-and-white format, Salgado highlights the larger meaning of what is happening to his subjects with an imagery that testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other injustices. 'The planet remains divided,' Salgado explains. 'The first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of need.' This disparity between the haves and the have-nots is the subtext of almost all of Salgado's work.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290532589941,"sku":"9780520241701","price":53.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520241701_1b022fb7-841a-4fdf-a853-b225df9c9064.jpg?v=1786014116"},{"product_id":"9788869658952","title":"Sebastiao Salgado: From My Land to the Planet","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310952755573,"sku":"9788869658952","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9788869658952_05c80076-d639-4dd4-b2bf-efb109be55c1.jpg?v=1786031476"},{"product_id":"9783836561365","title":"Sebastião Salgado","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn every crisis situation, children are the greatest victims. Physically weak, they are often the first to succumb to hunger, disease, and dehydration. Innocent to the workings and failings of the world, they are unable to understand why there is danger, why there are people who want to hurt them, or why they must leave, perhaps quite suddenly, and abandon their schools, their friends, and their home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this companion series to\u003cem\u003e Exodus\u003c\/em\u003e, Sebastião Salgado presents \u003cstrong\u003e90 portraits of the youngest exiles, migrants, and refugees\u003c\/strong\u003e. His subjects are from different countries, victims to different crises, but they are all on the move, and \u003cstrong\u003eall under the age of 15\u003c\/strong\u003e. Through his extensive refugee project, what struck Salgado about these boys and girls was not only the \u003cstrong\u003eimplicit innocence in their suffering but also their radiant reserves of energy and enthusiasm, even in the most miserable of circumstances\u003c\/strong\u003e. From roadside refuges in Angola and Burundi to city slums in Brazil and sprawling camps in Lebanon and Iraq, the children remained children: they were quick to laugh as much as to cry, they played soccer, splashed in dirty water, got up to mischief with friends, and were typically ecstatic at the prospect of being photographed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Salgado, the exuberance presented a curious paradox. How can a smiling child represent circumstances of deprivation and despair? What he noticed, though, was that when he asked the children to line up, and took their portraits one by one, the group giddiness would fade. \u003cstrong\u003eFace to face with his camera, each child would become much more serious.\u003c\/strong\u003e They would look at him not as part of a noisy crowd, but as an individual. Their poses would become earnest. \u003cstrong\u003eThey looked into the lens with a sudden intensity\u003c\/strong\u003e, as if abruptly taking stock of themselves and their situation. And in the expression of their eyes, or the nervous fidget of small hands, or the way frayed clothes hung off painfully thin frames, Salgado found he had a refugee portfolio that deserved a forum of its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The photographs do not try to make a statement about their subjects’ feelings, or to spell out the particulars of their health, educational, and housing deficits. Rather, the collection allows \u003cstrong\u003e90 children to look out at the viewer with all the candor of youth and all the uncertainty of their future\u003c\/strong\u003e. Beautiful, proud, pensive, and sad, they stand before the camera for a moment in their lives, but ask questions that haunt for years to come. Will they remain in exile? Will they always know an enemy? Will they grow up to forgive or seek revenge? 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The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same tale: deprivation, hardship, and glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting \u003cstrong\u003emore than 35 countries to document displacement on the road, in camps, and in overcrowded city slums\u003c\/strong\u003e where new arrivals often end up. His project includes \u003cstrong\u003eLatin Americans \u003c\/strong\u003eentering the United States,\u003cstrong\u003e Jews \u003c\/strong\u003eleaving the former Soviet Union,\u003cstrong\u003e Kosovars \u003c\/strong\u003efleeing into Albania, the \u003cstrong\u003eHutu refugees \u003c\/strong\u003eof Rwanda, as well as the\u003cstrong\u003e first “boat people” of Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean ea\u003c\/strong\u003e. His images feature those who know where they are going and those who are simply in flight, relieved to be alive and uninjured enough to run. The faces he meets present dignity and compassion in the most bitter of circumstances, but also the many ravaged marks of violence, hatred, and greed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With his particular eye for detail and motion, Salgado captures \u003cstrong\u003ethe heart-stopping moments of migratory movement, as much as the mass flux\u003c\/strong\u003e. There are laden trucks, crowded boats, and camps stretched out to a clouded horizon, and then there is the small, bandaged leg; the fingerprint on a page; the interview with a border guard; the bundle and baby clutched to a mother’s breast. \u003cstrong\u003eInsisting on the scale of the migrant phenomenon, Salgado also asserts, with characteristic humanism, the personal story within the overwhelming numbers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Against the indistinct faces of televised footage or the crowds caught beneath a newspaper headline, what we find here are \u003cstrong\u003eportraits of individual identities, even in the abyss of a lost land, home, and, often, loved ones\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At the same time, Salgado also \u003cstrong\u003edeclares the commonality of the migrant situation as a shared, global experience\u003c\/strong\u003e. He summons his viewers not simply as spectators of the refugee and exile suffering, but as actors in the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts which contribute to the migratory phenomenon. As the boats bobbing up on the Greek and Italian coastline bring migration home to Europe like no mass movement since the Second World War, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e cries out not only for our heightened awareness but also for responsibility and engagement\u003c\/strong\u003e. In face of the scarred bodies, the hundreds of bare feet on hot tarmac, our imperative is not to look on in compassion, but, in Salgado’s own words, to temper our behaviors in a “new regimen of coexistence.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311126786421,"sku":"9783836561303","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783836561303_2919cc4a-47de-4e30-aef9-9d1b8cf763a3.jpg?v=1786035200"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sebastiao-salgado.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}