In the Beginning

Sebastião Salgado's Migrations, or Exodus, as he prefers to call it, was a seven year project that took him to several contents as he photographed migrants fleeing ethnic and religious conflict and genocidal regimes. After witnessing so much suffering from behind his camera, he began to question his faith in humanity. Desparate to find something that would restore that faith, he has just begun work on what he's calling "Genesis." Some are saying it may be the last of his great photographic projects. And in it, he is seeking out places that are still as pristine as they were in primeval times, places that provide hope.

20 March 2005 by Melissa Lyttle

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