About

From 1977 to 1984, after many years of photographic journeys in Europe and Africa, Sebastião Salgado made many trips to Latin America, going to sweltering regions and those that were low and on the coast. He journeyed from the northwest of Brazil through to the mountains of Chile, to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. He experienced indescribable mysticism in the Sertão of Brazil, amongst men in leather with fierce struggles, surviving in places so barren, so poor, yet maintaining morale in the entire country.
He crossed the misty Sierra Madre mountains, with its hallucinogenic …