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of the story in my pictures a little bit off just moments ago i think. sebastiaan saw gado has a distinctive unique way of seeing the world you know all its beauty and brutality . his work has been exhibited internationally collected in numerous books and he's also been the subject of an acclaimed documentary film. at the 2019 frankfurt book fair brazilian for talk of her was awarded the peace prize of a german book trade. center encounter with a legendary photojournalist. sebastiaan so god go. ahead the political ticker to
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see so many things to put simply to sell that thing that made my life that it rich . if i was a sceptical i would like to say that. in 2019 there photograph is scary museum in stockholm hosted the exhibition gold curated by star god it was wife lydia. it features the iconic photographs sargodha a token the sirup are not a gold mine in brazil in 1906 over 30 years ago. black and white they have a timeless almost biblical quality. gripped by gold fever more than $50000.00 young men toiled in the mine 70 metres below ground usually caked in mud. the working and living conditions at what was then the world's largest open gold deposits were appalling.
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the men were suspicious of outsiders bizarre gado gained their trust. i spent 35 days and i neve to speak i sleep with that i eat with the it it became then that means i would therefore they wanted to leave it with this guy in that allowed me to do cedars off because. there was a lot of drinking and violence at the mine. police were often called to the scene. the porters for it was just that the head present that if the state if you are. the walka you holding the kind of off the rifle but the point is smith has a gun in the other hand we've to finger prick had it for shot that the it walk here
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not to happen. but sometimes the 5. parents cattle farm. in the middle of the rain forest. where they became active in left wing politics opposing the repressive military dictatorship that had come to power in. their friends disappeared somewhere tortured murdered. in 1969 the couple fled to paris so god who began working for international aid projects but then one day lilia came
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home with a camera and his life changed. the 1st polar see that they do control my life along 1971 the 1st time my wife told that camera to made the pictures of architecture because 2 way students in architecture and visible in the. i took the 1st picture in my life i looked through my view find out all fucked up but from this moment to ever think of transforming my life and i started to discuss with my wife i had a proposition to gold to washington for a walk in the world above it that. for most we discuss i would be economies to have become a football to devolve that said the football for weekends and we went back to by as i start my life of the dog food and. of that i had to wait for the day the. saga of began with sports and wedding photos for christmas. he got
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a family to support. his son giuliano who is today a filmmaker was born in 1974. rodrigue 0 was born in 1979. so i got to realize that photography was his vocation while on assignment in africa as an economist he was also then that his enduring fascination with the continent was born. uppercase a continent very close to mine a continent. you see. when you look at the map off africa and didn't map off brazil is it taken my $21.00 to be at that. just that 150 made a new years ago would just one place offer a go. but in america on talk of and class between
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a. kid the 17th since it became known to 90. meanings of offer he goes to rest in a moment to have more black population brazuca indian or. white the people of brazil and the infamous all fall for the bus squad to be that means when they go walking off of the home and for me i offer to gut is do most sophisticate that if both come to it we have before to defend into it that we have a us 5 us human being nice nice call sophisticated sophistication coaches learn which aspects of human aspect of racist in the us for us the feasible point to be a foot case of a is followed by law but. in the course of his career is our god who has
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traveled all over africa and completed some 40 proton groupie series there. in the mid 1980 s. he accompanied the aid organization doctors without borders to the drought stricken saya region but famine and military conflict had turned thousands of people into refugees. he spent over a year in mali ethiopia chad and sudan documenting their suffering and their dignity. the experience ultimately inspired one of saigon his most seminal projects exodus. a searing account of exiles migrants and refugees. were the photographer journeyed the world to. in the desperate forced mass movement of people around the globe.
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women in afghanistan. migration to cities in india. and this man from former yugoslavia. has an exile from his own country so i got to walk down to fires with their plight . what does your biography mean for your photography. is it important that you come from brazil's if you have experience as a refugee living far away from home i was an activist a politics lefties to. bad octavius to i made the many graves of a stop good is too good in economy social science and that when they came out of those 2. the day that the become a photographer obese was inside to be obese is my head it
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and i mean could my photography is not that them an activist that they must so show football for that they have. fought to recall just enough to go for this is because i love photography because i photographed it what that goal did that was important politically. so see a human in that what i love what i i. i so for made. my photography it's my way of life is much more than that i think that there could have been tried as my language is and i think they'll go to good old you see the star that the navy flew for. time and time again as he travels through places devastated by crisis and war so i gotto comes across children. often they're looking for a new home. often they're looking for their parents always there they're ones who suffer most they're the subject of another series children.
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994 was another turning point for us i got home in rwanda he witnessed the aftermath of the genocide it was carnage millions of displaced people bodies heaped by the side of the road the stark evidence of what humans are capable of doing to another made him sick psychologically physically. so i got to return to his parents abandoned farm in the brazilian rain forest to his horror little remained of the lush landscape he had left behind. the trees he remembered were almost completely gone. his wife really a proposed to be able to land and replant the forest the couple founded the instituto terra. and with the help of experts and local workers they replanted nearly 3000000 trees over the next 15 years.
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the restored forests include 290 different species while over 170 bird species are returned along with pumas and leopards. the land made a miraculous recovery. and so did south gado. but the rain forest is burning almost 500000 hectares were destroyed in august 29th dean. many deliberately ignited to clear the forest for farming cattle ranching.
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and what happens in a most on is that is special in the last 50 s. we destroy a lot of homicide we destroy evolved to 19 per cent of the amazon and he left. that means the canonical model that you have before brazil for all the war that is a part of that part model of economy is despite the thought of modern that to destroy it i'm not so but now after the vista before i have a new ball and will see them across the electorate is not addict up dictate to enda but his position in direction of 5 months on is to this friday to trace
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forth in a space for agriculture to open a space for the production of so you're being a soft meat to offer these things that if we honestly don't need war because it was enough so are you for all these. i believe that we must all together and just let the presidents in 1st shape presidents back and by all the planet we must create a movement to stop destruction we must sustain stop the movement to protect the zener tribes in the muscle and we have. about 169 in 2 people in brazilian i'm a son in brazil animals one is an important book is about 65 percent of all i'm a zone it is in brazil all these emergency we have to be protected we have
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about 183 groups of enormous on and that they were never contact never they are ours from 2000 years before 5000 years before they are indeed done. to lose their forests to lose their way of life to be destroyed and discovered to be this is really a major disaster. the saga autos spend several months of the year in brazil. but they have no intention of returning for good. he spent 11 years. away from brasil because it was not possible go back. dick that the ship was that it had a lot of friends that's what culture that brought us us in 8 in brazil and he's staying for us in beginning of the apes picked up the ship finish was supposed to
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go back and just want to have our kids in france or have one childhood that the has down syndrome and if rice choked to forehead pick up the kids in france are so good so well but bad that in brazil not that we take a decision to stay because our son and we love the frappes is a call to that to receive us so well we are also french and after that we started to split our life between brazil and france and we're out of that i have proof of it i. suggest you also got a return to brazil to recover and to help the nature he grew up with recover. and also to document the vital importance of the natural environment ultimately this is what led him to what might be his most ambitious project ever his epic series genesis. the project took so busto so gado to pristine corners of the
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a play for the big players before the graf to be there to walk with the light walk all the planners with the composition photography is a stat last quite respectable run out and you must have a place in the you must. the place to be. so shuffled off when people play with people than there are stars but that. if an enormous amount of preparation goes into his trips he spends months researching and planning his roots means daisy takes an assistant with him. his son giuliano is also accompanied him filming his father at work. together they visited wrangel island in siberia as arctic ocean course it must use a gun to photograph the walrus breeding ground. it's bitterly cold here
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if the german film director bin vendor has conducted extensive interviews with saga . he just deposed their conversations with julian knows footage and are got those photographs to make the biographical documentary the salt of the earth. released in 2014 it garnered a number of awards and helped bring the work of sebastiaan sagar over to a wider public. business. i was especially fascinated by how much he knows about the places he goes to. he amasses himself in his subjects he's not a tourist not a visitor to this because he doesn't just show up and start taking pictures of. he spends weeks and months there getting to know the people. with this approach he
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sort of and his right to tell their stories and at the. end in a tense. wherever he goes or god treats his subjects with utmost respect nature people their traditions and culture back here in papua new guinea where he photographed indigenous tribes those traditions are endangered. that semester also yarrow has explored the depths of what mankind can do. but he remains an optimist hopeful that the world can change for the better. you never lose your rebellions you see i do not lose it. i don't lose it also might energy and. no no no you see
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the human animal. is a political animal we are all politicians. we are all horse and we've decided that we are the most important for all our summa east's 2 feet so he died at the end community n d's we told him that he sees my foot on the head at. what's happening that's is my life if was and i said the boy a geek is up the same thing again. you take a photo in a fraction of a 2nd sagar has said but you need time to arrive there. time commitment experience and internet curiosity. some critics have said that he aesthetics size is suffering but his pictures are
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too beautiful. so i gotto says he simply chronicles what he sees. firefighters battling an inferno in kuwait's oil fields. men blinded by gold fever. risking their lives. if it were at. a photographer from sweden from german approach. i had another view off the planet there was a viewer looking from here to solve off the planet for the poor but i born in brazil you when i show depict this like news what. it's not the to provoke a conflict in the course sets off in the one it's
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a motion on the side my side that walk. in a career that spanned 50 years as a best yasar gotto has found beauty and barbarity and shown us a world in which much has been lost but where much can still be saved a message to future generations. but he sees what he does as a dying craft for having won. a big myth visit misunderstanding about football but if and what are we out of doing that we see the cell phone is not photography. is a new language of communication the person made it used to communicate send it why not us and knows the design is not in bought them for then take a huge amount off because. the late the down to someone is one they cherish telephone and they lose this bit to photography is another thing
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photography is the memory you see when your father or mother take a picture off you wonder what a babe in a went to the bone of the city to develop the fuel made the does mo album and to speak to is eli that photograph that the brain to that the beaches tell the stories that is really the main body of a society difficult it is the medium of the society that is a very recent way of communication photography has how many years a little bit more than one and that the in photography most probably would disappear is not the shame it is like to do is that the history of. his passion and commitment are unparalleled. for his most recent project he spent years in the amazon working on a series of images sent to be published in 2021. talking there's a bus josiah got home and contemplating his extraordinary images it seems
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you know book water is never far away. water and wealth and what the people of all book made of it that's going to be the coming beam for my tour of the city today and it's always have a lot on my list and no tour would be complete without a trip to oak spokes famous marionette theater chain again. 90 minutes on will do. that is for me. is for. beethoven is for him beethoven is for her. and beethoven is for. beethoven is for everyone. beethoven
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2021 fiftieth anniversary here on d w. when the water rises cities will sink into the sea. entire stretches of land it will be abandoned. and the water has to. be stopped it's happening faster than anticipated. masses are supposed to prevent flooding but they only delay the inevitable. how will we live in the future. 66 meters placing sea levels starts to fit on g.w. . this state of emergency is normal. people around the world are documenting these dramatic times. they're keeping the current
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