{"product_id":"sebastiao-salgado-exodus","title":"Sebastião Salgado. Exodus","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been almost a generation since \u003cstrong\u003eSebastião Salgado\u003c\/strong\u003e first published \u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and 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, and glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting \u003cstrong\u003emore than 35 countries to document displacement on the road, in camps, and in overcrowded city slums\u003c\/strong\u003e where new arrivals often end up. His project includes \u003cstrong\u003eLatin Americans \u003c\/strong\u003eentering the United States, \u003cstrong\u003e Jews \u003c\/strong\u003eleaving the former Soviet Union, \u003cstrong\u003e Kosovars \u003c\/strong\u003efleeing into Albania, the \u003cstrong\u003eHutu refugees \u003c\/strong\u003eof Rwanda, as well as the\u003cstrong\u003e first \"boat people\" of Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean ea\u003c\/strong\u003e. His images feature those who know where they are going and those who are simply in flight, relieved to be alive and uninjured enough to run. The faces he meets present dignity and compassion in the most bitter of circumstances, but also the many ravaged marks of violence, hatred, and greed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With his particular eye for detail and motion, Salgado captures \u003cstrong\u003ethe heart-stopping moments of migratory movement, as much as the mass flux\u003c\/strong\u003e. There are laden trucks, crowded boats, and camps stretched out to a clouded horizon, and then there is the small, bandaged leg; the fingerprint on a page; the interview with a border guard; the bundle and baby clutched to a mother's breast. \u003cstrong\u003eInsisting on the scale of the migrant phenomenon, Salgado also asserts, with characteristic humanism, the personal story within the overwhelming numbers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Against the indistinct faces of televised footage or the crowds caught beneath a newspaper headline, what we find here are \u003cstrong\u003eportraits of individual identities, even in the abyss of a lost land, home, and, often, loved ones\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At the same time, Salgado also \u003cstrong\u003edeclares the commonality of the migrant situation as a shared, global experience\u003c\/strong\u003e. He summons his viewers not simply as spectators of the refugee and exile suffering, but as actors in the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts which contribute to the migratory phenomenon. As the boats bobbing up on the Greek and Italian coastline bring migration home to Europe like no mass movement since the Second World War, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e cries out not only for our heightened awareness but also for responsibility and engagement\u003c\/strong\u003e. In face of the scarred bodies, the hundreds of bare feet on hot tarmac, our imperative is not to look on in compassion, but, in Salgado's own words, to temper our behaviors in a \"new regimen of coexistence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681789546770,"sku":"9783836561303","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74d445bc-2389-4a9e-af73-a971387f5de0.jpg?v=1737241636","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sebastiao-salgado-exodus","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}