Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis

The Guardian

Simon Hattenstone
Saturday February 11, 2006

A Kuikuro tribe member in the Amazon's Upper Xingu Basin by Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas/NB Pictures

After two years fraternising with giant tortoises, whales and gorillas, Sebastião Salgado has turned his attention to human beings - the Alto Xingu Indians. As befits Genesis - a 12-year project in which Salgado is focusing on the world's few remaining pristine environments - these people live their life as naked as Adam and Eve. For Salgado, they are naked in every sense: they have no front, their emotions stripped of pretence, their behaviour of pretensions


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