A Brazilian Amazon Forest Initiative | Interview with Sebastião Salgado

The award-winning photographer Sebastião Salgado gave a keynote speech during the 25th General Conference of ICOM, ICOM Kyoto 2019, on September 3.

A humanist and a tireless traveller, his career has taken him to over 100 countries for his photographic projects. In 2004, Sebastião Salgado began a project named Genesis, aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity’s rediscovery of itself in nature.

Beyond press publications, his main works were presented in books. Touring exhibitions of these works have been, and continue to be, presented in museums and galleries throughout the world. He is currently working on a photographic project on the theme of the Brazilian Amazon forest and its inhabitants, the indigenous communities. This work will be presented in the form of books and exhibitions in 2021.