The Salt of the Earth

Lights in the Dusk

Compels the audience to question the necessity of the art to document the human condition, but also the responsibility of the artist to become more than just a chronicler of death & degradation. Salgado's imagery is astonishing, often beautiful, even when depicting a subject matter of real atrocity. An uneasy dichotomy, but one that suggests the perseverance of the human spirit; the will to survive against the odds.

Marta Donati

An incredibly beautiful journey through the life and works of a man who knows how to depict humanity and nature with an astounding empathy.

nouvelle vague 1960

First of all,I've got to thank Win Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgardo, for introducing me to the incredible life of photographer Sebastiao Salgado.An Artist of shade and light,who has literally been to Hell and back!Like Dante,he shows us the Inferno of the Brazilian gold mine,to mention only one of the nightmares he has photographed.However,by going back to Nature he has found hope for himself and maybe for us.

DMW

Wenders, a conduit of the pure soul of filmmaking. Salgado, an utterly distinctive voice; through his camera lens he has become an unparalleled witness of our times. Together they have created not just a portrait of a man and his work, but they have 'shot back'. And captured a haunting perspective of humanity: our delicate interrelationship with each other, ourselves, and the planet. One of the best films of 2015.

Annie Gentil-Kraatz

This documentary presents social photographer Sebastão Salgado in his personal life, his approach, his work and his ideas on the world, humanity and the environment. It is a journey with him but a very thorough one that shows some people are genuinely and deeply concerned about others and the world. Salgado's pictures are intensely beautiful and poignant. Don't miss it if you like photography.

Atzin Ortiz González

This isn't just a portrait of a compromised artist to humanity, it is a window to his vision so we can confront face to face the beauty and the ugliness, inseparable dualities, that has shaped the history of the human kind. Poetic and soul breaking in equal doses, it is also a cry of hope. Touching and unforgettable. A new masterpiece.

msmichel

What begins as a portrait of famed social photographer Sebastiao Salgado expands into an examination of mankind's barbarism of the past fifty years by examining his work through droughts, wars, displacements and genocide. But most interesting is the soul crushing effect that this should have has Salgado reinvent himself again finding hope in the possible rejuvenation of nature. Impeccably made film.

Richmond Hill

Bigness, or more accurately a wide world-view, is the credo of Salgado’s work. Somewhere between the anthropological joy of Adams and the reportage of McCullin. It’s easy to wring your hands over the horror captured in his work then be elated at the wonder of nature in the next. Such is life, but emerging back into daylight after this it’s all there in front of you, perhaps it takes Salgado’s framing to ram it home.