Sebastião Salgado: genesis
Sebastião Salgado is embarking on the last of his great photographic projects, which will appear regularly in Weekend over the next eight years. He is seeking out places that are still as pristine as they were in primeval times, places that provide hope
Sebastião Salgado in Siberia - Picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Sebastião Salgado's visit to the nomadic Nenets of northern Siberia was one of the final trips of his Genesis project.
Sebastião Salgado in Siberia
Sebastião Salgado in Siberia - in pictures
I find the last continent
Frogs that don't hop, mysterious mountains, ancient ceremonies ... in the latest despatch from his eight-year Genesis project, Sebastião Salgado photographs in Venezuela a corner of the planet that is untouched by time.
The far corner of the world
The Kamchatka peninsula is one of the most remote and barren places on earth. In the latest stage of his mammoth Genesis project, photographer Sebastião Salgado finds an eerie beauty in a land of volcanos and bears.
On the cusp of time
For the latest project in his 12-year Genesis series, photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the Namib desert to discover a profound stillness in its landscape, its animals and its people.
The peaceful warriors
For the first time in his 12-year project recording pristine corners of the world, Sebastião Salgado has photographed people - Xingu Indians in his home country, Brazil. Their life of fishing, bathing and wrestling entranced him.
High summer
Antarctica is the realm of albatross, elephant seals, penguins and predatory skua birds. Photographer Sebastião Salgado joins them as the ice fields are at their most temperate.
Among the giants
In the seas off Patagonia, right whales (so called because they were 'right' for hunting) gather to breed. Acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado, on the latest stage of his epic Genesis project, spent weeks in their company, and saw the ocean turn into a jumping field.
Under the volcanoes
Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns to Rwanda, in the second part of Genesis, his eight-year project in which he is exploring the world's purest and most protected areas. Simon Hattenstone meets him.
Be fruitful, and replenish the earth
Sebastião Salgado introduces his journey to the untouched corners of the planet
Biography: Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado was born in a small Brazilian town surrounded by the rainforest. After working as an economist, he began taking photographs on missions linked to the World Bank, which awakened his interest in the art form
In the beginning
Sebastião Salgado is embarking on the last of his great photographic projects, which will appear regularly in Weekend over the next eight years. He is seeking out places that are still as pristine as they were in primeval times, places that provide hope. First stop, the Galápagos Islands.
