From my land to the planet. Ediz. illustrata

From my land to the Planet is the first book that brings together the reflections written in the first person by Sebastião Salgado: a long story driven by the Brazilian photographer’s ecological sensitivity, in which he describes the creation of the Instituto Terra in Brazil and his path as man and witness of our time. After F. Scianna and M. Calabresi, the collection In Parole is enriched with another authoritative voice, master of international photography, revealing to the public Salgado as a writer, able to lead the reader, with an engaging prose, to distant countries, areas of immense beauty but also of profound injustice. Sebastião Salgado’s photographs have been shown around the world. In From my land to the Planet the photographer tells us the story behind his photographs: the black and white portraits of unknown men and women, workers and refugees, and more recently his Genesis project aimed at the conservation of the most beautiful places of our planet. With a disarming kindness and simplicity, Salgado rebuilds his path, exposes his beliefs, makes us sharers of his emotions. The talent as a storyteller and the authenticity of a man who knows how to combine activism and professionalism, talent and generosity, thus emerges. Inside the book there are fascinating stories of Africa, Brazil, the Americas, Mozambique and Rwanda, and then again the birth of the Instituto Terra, of the Genesis project, of Magnum Photos and finally of Amazonas Images. “Looking at one of Sebastião Salgado’s photographs it’s not only about getting to meet the other, but also to meet oneself. It means experiencing human dignity, understanding what it means to be a woman, a man, a child. Sebastião probably has a deep love for the people he photographs. Otherwise you would not be able to make them feel so present, alive and confident? How could we find that sense of fraternity?” (Isabelle Francq)

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