Inspiration: Sebastião Salgado: Genesis + TED

by John Neel

July 25, 2013 - Discover, Inspiration, Landscape, Masters - Tagged: animals, artist, black and white, book, brazil, Canada, concerned photography, CONTACT, digital, earth, environment, gallery, Genesis, John Neel, life, Ontario, photobook, photography, rainforest, ROM, Sabastiao Salgado, save, Toronto, trees

Sebastião Salgado is a great photographer whose work is dedicated to the environment and the human condition. He is also a great environmentalist. His work is currently on view in a major exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario Canada in conjunction with the CONTACT Photography Festival.

CONTACT is the largest photography event in the world, and a premier cultural event in Canada. For more information:scotiabankcontactphoto.com/

“We are living in an important moment for our planet and photographs are a way of sharing this historical moment,” says Salgado. “Ours is a powerful planet to be seen with fresh eyes. For me, GENESIS is a kind of respectful poem that we are writing about our natural home.”

“This exhibition tells stories of nature, change, loss and hopeful findings as we learn about the affects people have on the environment and what we can do to preserve our planet,” say Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. “Climate change is among the most critical conversations happening today, and through the Museum’s ongoing cultural approach to this theme, we join forces with CONTACT and Sebastião Salgado, hoping that visitors who experience GENESIS will leave feeling differently than when they arrived. We hope they leave prepared to make a difference in their own backyards.”

The North American premiere of GENESIS, by internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado, opens Saturday, May 4, 2013. Curated by Lelia Wanick Salgado and organized by Amazonas images, GENESIS is presented in partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. This is a primary exhibition of the festival and is on view until September 2, 2013.

GENESIS features 245 extraordinary images taken by Salgado during eight years of traveling to 32 different locations. The exhibition is a photographic expedition around the planet; a journey to the landscapes, seascapes, animals and peoples that have so far escaped the long, and often destructive, reach of today’s world. It is testimony that our planet still harbours vast and remote regions where nature reigns in silent and pristine majesty. Through these photographs, GENESIS aspires to share this beauty and begs observers to consider what is left of our planet, what is in peril, and what is left to save.” – Royal Ontario Museum – Toronto, Ontario Canada

This video is a fantastic presentation of the human drama, what is happening to our land, our forests and our planet.

This video offers hope. If only we pay attention in time to do something.

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