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Blue-spotted Wrasse
Anampses caeruleopunctatus.
SciArt from the Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Bd. 4, Heft. 11, 13, 15 (1876-1881).
View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum, London for digitizing.
The Nomadic Nenets Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
The Nomadic Nenets Crossing the Ob river to enter the Arctic Circle, Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
The Nenets : What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; our link to the land.
The Nomadic Nenets Family Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
The Reindeer of the Nenets Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Dinka Man covered in Ashes which sterilises the skin against insects and parasites Sudan 2006
Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Omo Valley Ethiopia 2007
The Anavilhanas covering 1000sq km if Amaziona Rio Negro Brazil
Two Mursi women, Omo Valley Ethiopia 2007
Yacare Caimans in the Patanal State of Mato Grosso Brazil 2011
A Yali man in the Jayawijaya mountains of Irian Jaya, West Papua 2012
The Mentawai Siberut Island Indonesia 2008
Zo'e Tribeswomen, State of Para Brazil 2009
Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay India
Coal Mines Dhanbad Bihar India 1989
Macaroni Penguins in Zavodovski Island, The Sandwich Islands 2009
Miner Standing up for himself Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Figure Eight Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Ladder Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Arizona
Upper Xingu Kamayuva Shamans Brazil 2005
Namibia 2005
The Mentawai Siberut Island Indonesia 2008
Elephant Seal Calves on South Georgia, Barren Island on the South Atlantic
Sebastiao reading his Sumo size book Genesis by Taschen
Genesis Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum
The look in the eyes of the Seals, the brutality of the life of the miners, the intoxicating beauty of our natural world The Patanal, The Okavongo Delta, the dunes of Namibia and the incredible lives of the tribes from Siberia to Java Indonesia that live the same way for thousands of years. God do I live in a bubble in London.
These images just stir so many emotions in me, amazement, respect, sadness, anger, love but mostly awareness thanks to the courageous and humanitarian “photo-god” Sebastiao Salgado.
The love and sensitivity this man has for this planet has been recorded in many photo essays and books ,some of the images I choose are from "Workers" on labour all over the world , “Migrations” on the displacement of people due to famine and war and now Sumo sized Genesis is “ My Love Letter to the Planet” a project that took Sebastiao into a journey of 9 years and over 30 journeys of trekking, canoeing, ballooning and travelling to the ends of the earth to visually connect us back into our planet, its tribes and its beauty that is still here.
“ We need to recover our instincts, to learn more about nature”
" I wanted to give others the opportunity to see the nature of a pristine planet “
I wish I could make these pictures bigger as you can only skim the surface of their power here. Luckily the Natural History Museum in London is showing a retrospective of Genesis until the 8th of September 2013.
Otherwise you can get The Collectors Edition of the Sumo sized Genesis designed and edited by Salgados wife Lelia Wanick Salgado published by Taschen and also a custom made bookstand designed Legendary Japanese Architect Tadao Ando.
There is more information on the websites below of other work and books. A lot to read and learn.
Thank you for bringing us back the wonders of that still exists in our world. May they always be here for generations to come..
