[dovate.com] » Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado

Salgado has the unusual ability to photograph things that you can’t actually see. I don’t mean this in a usual or intuitive sense. It’s not that he does what every photographer does, which is to capture the unseen. It’s more like he somehow captures the insomniac half-dreams of some restless deity. I can’t begin to imagine how he does it. Sometimes I think he’s more seer than photographer.
*
*
*
*
*
*

*
      

*

For many, many more, including all the photographs too powerful to just throw up in this space, visit this site. For an audio slide show of his work-in-progress, visit this New Yorker page.

Leave a comment

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <strong>