Genesis

Sebastião Salgado

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, boarded Tara to write the Antarctic chapter of his project “Genesis,” a great black and white photographic fresco representing sites where nature remains untouched.  This is how he came to describe his journey of exploration:

“I conceive this project as a potential path towards humanity's rediscovery of  itself in nature. I have named it Genesis because, as far as possible, I want to  return to the beginnings of our planet: to the air, water and fire that gave  birth to life; to the animal species that have resisted domestication and are  still "wild"; to the remote tribes whose "primitive" way of life is largely  untouched; and to surviving examples of the earliest forms of human settlement  and organisation. This voyage represents a form of planetary anthropology. Yet it  is also designed to propose that this uncontaminated world must be preserved and,  where possible, be expanded so that development is not automatically commensurate  with destruction.”

“My photographs will be divided in four chapters. But since this will be a journey  of exploration and discovery, I have a better idea of where I will look than what  I will find.”

Sebastião Salgado
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