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GENESIS made Sebastiao again travel the world for nearly a decade. It was to show nature, animals, places and people They are living as the beginning of time. A more optimistic view of the same planet that Sebastiao had looked hurt and…
This was my last trip, this sad adventure in Rwanda. I went there. He does not believe in anything. He did not believe in the salvation of the human race. We could not survive that. We did not deserve to live anymore. No one deserved to…
Everyone should see these images, to see how terrible it is our species. These orphans, I found them on the road ... Of these three children, the two with the most lively eyes will survive. The eyes of the morbid, he was dying. When I left…
We were there at the right time. Just as families arrived in a state of high anxiety. There were only women, elderly and children. The young men had been detained or killed. It is rare that this happens in Europe, the late twentieth…
Amid all this anguish, something touched me very much. It was seeing this mother with her little child, and the little child's confidence in her mother. === Violence and brutality they are not a monopoly of distant countries. It is here,…
... another burning issue of our times was the displacement of entire populations due to wars, famines and the role of the global market. As Europe closed its borders, Sebastiao trying to shed light on the lives of the marginalized. ... …
In 1991, at the end of the first Gulf War, Iraqi troops withdrew and Saddam Hussein set fire to thousands of oil wells. Thousands of firefighters from around the world descended on those oil fields. Sebastiao had to go too, driven by…
This kid was alone, with his little guitar in hand, He is carrying the remains of a shirt, but not wearing pants. Watch the determination, the posture. He is someone who knows where it goes. Looking for other groups of people, with his dog…
THE END OF THE ROAD 1984-1986 -- For his next project, which would lead to Sahel in Africa, Sebastiao began working with MSF. I worked in Ethiopia in 1984. And then I continued throughout the Sahel, 85 and 86. Finally, spend nearly two…
The eyes speak volumes, the expression of the face. When you do a portrait, is not you alone who takes the picture. The person offers photo. === Infant mortality was very high in the northeast of Brazil. These are children who died before…
For him, all started in Aimorés, a small town in Brazil. There the estate of his father stood under the big sky. There were vast Atlantic forests. The river then was still navigable. But above all, endless trains were passing by bursting…
It may be best to start recalling the origin of this word. In Greek, "photo" meaning light. And "graphein" was writing, drawing. A photographer is literally someone drawing with light. Someone who writes and rewrites the world with light…