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Photography review, Sebastio Salgado |
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Migrations: Humanity in Transition.
Sebastio Salgado, Aperture, 2000, £65.00.
 Photographer Sebastio Salgado has long documented the condition of the world's workers and peasants, refugees and children.
In his latest collection he examines mass migrations, and people's changing relationship with the lands they've lived and worked on for generations. His images tell a powerful story of dispossession: fewer people are left in rural areas as millions have migrated to cities.
Those left are often fighting for survival with little or no land to farm, with strong political and economic forces allied against them. Salgado writes, "I visited many cities and countries for the first time. When I returned to places I had previously known, however, it was painful to discover that things were generally worse."
This book is one of many offering photographic studies of our times: another is Century.
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