I didn't know it existed.
Salgado has such a spiritual connection to his subject matter. It's very moving to hear him speak. So much difficult viewing here, especially his photojournalistic work in Africa. I don't know how he could spiritually survive witnessing and experiencing firsthand (at length) the starvation in Ethiopia in the eighties and the genocide in Rwanda in the nineties. And that's not even the totality of the war-torn theaters Salgado has photographed at length. He admits he completely lost faith in our species for a period. Who wouldn't, really, seeing such human suffering, such massacres and torture? And all of it could have been avoided. Almost all of the disasters he covered were the work of mankind and not of nature. Even where starvation was caused by nature, the relief (food) that others sent was denied them by other people. His work documents the ongoing madness of the world.
Salgado has such a spiritual connection to his subject matter. It's very moving to hear him speak. So much difficult viewing here, especially his photojournalistic work in Africa. I don't know how he could spiritually survive witnessing and experiencing firsthand (at length) the starvation in Ethiopia in the eighties and the genocide in Rwanda in the nineties. And that's not even the totality of the war-torn theaters Salgado has photographed at length. He admits he completely lost faith in our species for a period. Who wouldn't, really, seeing such human suffering, such massacres and torture? And all of it could have been avoided. Almost all of the disasters he covered were the work of mankind and not of nature. Even where starvation was caused by nature, the relief (food) that others sent was denied them by other people. His work documents the ongoing madness of the world.
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