Sebastiao Salagado/Amazonas - Contact Press ... and they cast a blessed shade. The legendary photographer, now 71, gestures out the window at the broccoli-top canopy of a pau-brasil, or brazilwood ...

Sebastião Salgado “I saw billions of hours of work, thousands of years” in the ties between landscape and people, the photographer says. A villager lives at an altitude of almost 10,000 feet ...

The Salt of the Earth begins with an arresting black-and-white photograph of a mud-soaked man leaning on a post over a giant hole that seems to open into hell itself. Like a scene out of Dante’s ...