Photo © Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas imagesGaze at any of Sebastião Salgado's photographs and overwhelming emotion washes over you. Sebastião Salgado, Serra Pelada Opencast Gold Mine, Pará, Brazil, 1986, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches. Photo © Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images"I had incredible light when I was a child in Brazil," he recalls. Sebastião Salgado, Nenets, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, 2011, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches. Going back to the farm, Salgado saw that the forested paradise that he grew up in was, like him, mostly destroyed.

Source: Bangkok Post February 10, 2017 00:36 UTC