Dina Mitrani Gallery is proud to present a selection of photographs by internationally recognized artist, Sebastião Salgado. This is the gallery’s second collaboration with the Peter Fetterman Gallery, based in California. In Genesis, Salgado’s third long-term series, the artist has chosen to focus on the pristine beauty of the earth and those living in harmony with it. Salgado’s photographs, taken during an 8-year period, are an effort to show the importance of preserving and taking care of our planet. They are a call to action, for the world to have a greater awareness of the healing we can generate with small efforts.
About Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8, 1944, in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Initially an economist, Salgado began his photographic career in Paris in 1973. He worked with the Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos agencies until 1994, when he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado founded Amazonas Images, dedicated exclusively to his work. He has traveled to more than 100 countries for his photographic projects, which—after being published in the press—are mainly presented in books including Autres Amériques and Sahel, l’homme en détresse (1986), La Main de l’homme (1993), Terra (1997), Exodes (2000), Les Enfants de l’Exode (2000), and Africa (2007). Traveling exhibitions of his work have been, and continue to be, presented throughout the world.
Since 1990, Sebastião and Lélia have been working to reclaim the environment of a small part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil by giving a plot of land they owned back to nature. In 1998, they made the area into a natural reserve and created the Instituto Terra, with a mission aimed at reforestation and environmental education.
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