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Sebastião Salgado’s best shot: ‘Sometimes they sat down and cried’ … Canadian firefighters in Kuwait battle to seal an oil well. Photograph: Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images/nbpictures

Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian photojournalist, has been traveling to remote, sparsely populated jungle and desert locations for his ecological work in progress “Genesis.”

Photo: Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contact Press Images, courtesy of the Peter Fetterman Gallery

I remember coming across the work of Salgado on the cover of Hearts of Darkness by Joseph Conrad many moons ago.  I was working for an Investment Bank at the time and I later learned that Salgado was previously an economist for the World Bank before he switched to photography in 1973.

More of his work can be seen here:http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/

Here’s a face to put to the name: