Japan exhibits Sebastiao Salgado's Africa

Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has displayed the latest collection of works by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.

The event exhibits Africa, which introduces 'the neglected continent' through the eyes of the photo-documentary pioneer.

The event displays about 100 photographs, which include some of Salgado's upcoming collection, Genesis, Artdaily reported.

Genesis, which Salgado refers to as his last major project, is the result of his travels across the globe as well as places never visited by Westerners before.

The project also includes education and tree planting in an effort to demonstrate the Earth's bounty and highlight the history of humankind through a new perspective.

Salgado started photographing Africa in the 1970s and his works reflect the starvation, desertification and endless wars in which the black continent has been entangled with for so long.

Sebastiao Salgado, who started his career as an economist, is best known for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations.

Many of his works have been published as books including An Uncertain Grace (1992), Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children: Refugees and Migrants (2000), Sahel: The End of the Road (2004) and Africa (2007).

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/109610.html.