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Sebastiao Salgado. Children (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Sebastiao Salgado. Children (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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In 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. In this companion series to Exodus, Sebastiao
Salgado presents 90 portraits of the youngest exiles, migrants, and
refugees. His subjects are from different countries, victims to
different crises, but they are all on the move, and all under the
age of 15. Through his extensive refugee project, what struck
Salgado about these boys and girls was not only the implicit
innocence in their suffering but also their radiant reserves of
energy and enthusiasm, even in the most miserable of circumstances.
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.
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. Face to face with his camera, each child would become
much more serious. They would look at him not as part of a noisy
crowd, but as an individual. Their poses would become earnest. They
looked into the lens with a sudden intensity, 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. 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 90 children to look
out at the viewer with all the candor of youth and all the
uncertainty of their future. 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? Will they grow up at all?
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