Wim Wenders documents the work and life of Brazilian artist, environmentalist and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, bringing his acclaimed photography to the big screen. For 40 years, Salgado has travelled the globe, capturing challenging images of humanity from thousands of workers toiling in Brazil’s open cast mines to the hostile environment of Siberia.
Words cannot reflect what social photographer Sebastião Salgado visualises and captures, for he is a writer of a different kind, “a man writing and rewriting the world with lights and shadows.” By being both a biographical documentary and a showcase of his work, Wim Wenders’ (Pina) The Salt of the Earth can easily teach anyone how to ‘read’ what Salgado ‘writes’.
Full reviewWenders confirms his mastery of the documentary form with this stunning ode to Sebastiao Salgado.
Full review[Mr. Salgado's] pictures, precisely because they disclose harsh and unwelcome truths, deserve a harder, more robustly critical look.
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Salgado’s photographs have the scope and perspective of someone who can genuinely say he’s seen it all.
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Whether you're familiar with Salgado's name and work or not, the documentary "The Salt of the Earth," a popular prize-winner at Cannes and on the Oscar shortlist, will be a revelation.
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“The Salt Of The Earth” is as often breathtakingly beautiful as the photographer's images.
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Doesn’t reveal so much as gracefully confirm that the empathy and humanism that make Salgado’s photojournalistic work so special are also a part of the artist’s outlook on life.
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