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09/10/2004:

"Sebastião Salgado: Be fruitful, and replenish the earth"

Sebastião Salgado introduces his journey to the untouched corners of the planet

"...Thus, for all the damage already caused to the environment, a world of purity, even innocence, can still be found in these wilderness areas. As an attempt to reconnect our species with our planet, I now intend to explore this world in order to record the unblemished faces of nature and humanity: how nature looked without men and women; and how humanity and nature long coexisted in what today we now call ecological balance.

This project is designed to reconnect us to how the world was before humanity altered it almost beyond recognition. It is a project that follows on from the long photographic research that led to my books and exhibitions, Other Americas, Sahel: L'Homme en Détresse, Workers and Migrations. In these early undertakings, I did not focus specifically on the environment, but I was constantly confronted by dismaying evidence of the dramatic deterioration of humanity's relationship with nature. All too often, extreme poverty and migration were both a cause and a result of the degradation and pollution of nature's resources..."

Full Article and photos: Guardian UK