Sebastio Salgado. Genesis

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Sebastio Salgado's haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."

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Llia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastio Salgados photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. Sebastio Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Llia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images, which is today their studio, and exclusively handles his work. Salgados photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. LHomme en dtresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amaznia (2021).