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.
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