#1 - Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado, a Paris based Brazilian photographer, a documentary photographer and photojournalist.

He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. He is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.He was awarded Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on "genesis". The exhibition "genesis" has just held at the Singapore National Art Museum, ended on 31st August.

"Genesis" aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. 

Before this, Salgado was actually physically and psychologically finished as he had seen too much violence and it was so tough that he stopped photography. To get a change of scenery, he spent eight months a year for eight years, trotting up and down the globe, he continue his photography journey in a different way.

Salgado 's photographs speaks his experience. " When you come to a place like this, you must understand that all of this is alive and you are a part of this. In this moment, it’s not different from photographing a human being. All of these landscapes have personalities. Every animal, trees, landscapes, they’re all rational. That humans are the only rational species is a big lie that we’re told.”
he said.

Finally, it seems as if Salgado has gone beyond humanity in depicting the natural world: landscapes without people. His best work seems to transcend history itself.