Sebastiao Salgado: Exodus

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Humanity on the move: Sebastiao Salgado`s searing reportage of exiles, migrants, & refugees. It has been almost a generation since Sebastiao Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push & pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same tale: deprivation, hardship, & glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil. Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting more than 35 countries to document displacement on the road, in camps, & in overcrowded city slums where new arrivals often end up. His reportage

Includes:: Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, the Hutu refugees of Rwanda, as well as the first boat people of Arabs & sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean sea. His images feature those who know where they are going & those who are simply in flight, relieved to be alive & uninjured enough to run. The faces he meets present dignity & compassion in the most bitter of circumstances, but also the many ravaged marks of violence, hatred, & greed.