A documentary portrait of the renowned Brazilian photographer by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado manages to be both illuminating and uplifting
Sebastião Salgado is the Brazilian photographer whose nightmarish pictures of teeming, dirt-swamped gold miners electrified the world's media in the mid-1980s. Now 70, Salgado has had his life story told by the joint force of his own son Juliano and Wim Wenders, and it's a story that has turned out to have its own uplifting dynamic and character arc.
From his early years growing up on a Brazilian farm and a brief career as an economist, through his increasingly large-scale, and time-consuming, photographic projects that took him to many of the world's most hostile and dangerous conflict zones, to a late-life return to his homeland and a determination to connect with the ravaged natural environment. This, at least, is the outline, and Salgado makes a magnetic subject seeming, in his reflective, autumnal mood, a little older than he actually is. You do get the impression someone unswervingly focussed on his photography, to the extent of sacrificing large chunks of his family life to spend years on the road.
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