A native of Brazil, trained as an economist, Sebastiao Salgado has shown a constant faith in mankind, a solidarity that never wavers or flinches in the face of pan, an ability to analyze extreme situations, a fierce drive to affirm what he truly is, a humanist photographer. About the series: The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page photographs in duotone and/or color, plus...

Sebastião Salgado's "Workers "is an elegy to the manual laborers of the industrial age in the fields of agriculture, mining, oil, construction, food and industry. Salgado's powerful images of tea pickers in Rwanda, dam builders in India, steelworkers in France and the Ukraine, sugarcane harvesters in Brazil, assembly-line workers in Russia and China, sulfur miners in Indonesia and others pay moving tribute to the working people who, in Salgado's portrayal, have maintained their dignity under the harshest of conditions. Made over a period of six years, the 250 photographs comprising the...

Der brasilianisch-französische Starfotograf Sebastião Salgado wird weltweit gefeiert für seine eindringlichen Fotoreportagen, ausschließlich in Schwarz-weiß. Seine sozialdokumentarischen Bilder, für die er seit Jahrzehnten um den Globus reist, halten uns den Spiegel vor und zeigen uns zugleich die Welt als Schöpfung von überwältigender Schönheit. Seine Bilder zeugen von der Würde des Menschen ebenso wie von der Majestät und der Verletzlichkeit unseres Planeten. In Mein Land, unsere Erde erzählt der Fotograf die Geschichten hinter seinen berühmtesten Reportagen.