Sebastiao Salgado

Genesis

A group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village. Upper Xingu. Mato Grosso State. Brazil. 2005. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Elephants are hunted by poachers in Zambia, so they are scared of humans and vehicles. When they see an approaching car, they usually run quickly into the bush. Kafue National Park. Zambia. 2010. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

The Mursi and the Surma women are the last women in the world to wear lip plates. Mursi village of Dargui in Mago National Park, in the Jinka Region. Ethiopia. 2007. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galápagos. Ecuador. 2004. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Teureum, sikeirei and leader of the Mentawai clan. This shaman is preparing a filter for sago, with the leaves of this same sago tree. Siberut Island. West Sumatra. Indonesia. 2008. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Large sand dunes between Albrg and Tin Merzouga, Tadrart. South of Djanet. Algeria. 2009. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Typically, the women in the Zo’é village of Towari Ypy use the “urucum” (Bixa orellana) red fruit to color their bodies. Pará State. Brazil. 2009. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Southern Right whales (Eubalaena australis), drawn to the Valdés Peninsula because of the shelter provided by its two gulfs, the Golfo San José and the Golfo Nuevo, often navigate with their tails upright in the water. Valdés Peninsula, Argentina. 2004. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

Iceberg between Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands on the Weddell Sea. Antarctic Peninsula. 2005. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

When the weather is particularly hostile, the Nenets and their reindeer may spend several days in the same place. North of the Ob River, inside the Arctic Circle. Yamal Peninsula. Siberia. Russia. 2011. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

South Sandwich Islands. Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on an iceberg located between Zavodovski and Visokoi islands. South Sandwich Islands. 2009. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images

View of the junction of the Colorado and the Little Colorado from the Navajo territory. The Grand Canyon National Park begins after this junction. Arizona. USA. 2010. Photograph by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images