Sebastião Salgado. Genesis. CaixaForum Madrid

Go back

<i>Sebastião Salgado. Genesis</i>. CaixaForum Madrid

Sebastião Salgado. Genesis. CaixaForum Madrid

Madrid, 16 January 2014

CaixaForum Madrid

Genesis is a stunning mosaic in which nature is portrayed in all its grandeur. In 2004, after devoting nearly three decades to reflecting on human drama and tragedy, the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado launched this eight-year project, which focuses on the natural beauty found all over our planet. In Salgado’s own words, Genesis is “a visual tribute to the majesty and fragility of the planet Earth; a warning about everything that we risk losing”.

The first destination of the Genesis project was, the Galápagos Islands, which Salgado visited in 2004. Subsequently, until 2012, Salgado made a total of 32 journeys to wild, unspoiled sites around the world, stopping in Antarctica, Madagascar, Botswana, Virunga National Park, where the borders of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda meet, Alaska, the Colorado Plateau in the United States, Siberia and the Amazon rainforest, amongst other places.

This international travelling exhibition, presented for the first time in Spain at CaixaForum Madrid, comprises 245 black and white photographs depicting landscapes, animals and people that have so far managed to escape the long reach of today’s world: polar circles, tropical rainforests, wide savannahs, scorching deserts, glacier-covered mountains and solitary islands.

Sebastião Salgado. Genesis. Dates: from 17 January to 4 May 2014. Place: CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36, 28014, Madrid). Organised and produced by: ”la Caixa” Foundation. Curator: Lélia Wanick Salgado.

More information in the PDF press release

Image-free and for promotional use only for the exhibition “Genesis” by Sebastião Salgado CaixaForum Madrid from 16 January 2014 to 4 May 2014. The media could publish two of 15 royalty-free images provided in addition to the image of the exhibition (photography Eastern range of Brooks)

See less

To order high resolution photos, click here. (service available exclusively for professional media)

UpPress release and documents (1)

Press release of exhibition Pissarro CaixaForum Madrid

UpImages (15)

View of the confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado from the Navajo territory. The Grand Canyon National Park begins after this junction. Arizona. USA. April, May and June 2010. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galápagos. Ecuador. January, February and March 2004. &copy Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galápagos. Ecuador. January, February and March 2004. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Typically, the women in the Zo’é village of To-wari Ypy use the red fruit of the urucum (Bixa orellana) to color their bodies. Pará, Brazil. March and April 2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Iceberg between Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands on the Weddell Sea. Antarctic Peninsula. January and February 2005. &copy Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Iceberg between Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands on the Weddell Sea. Antarctic Peninsula. January and February 2005. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) on an iceberg located between Zavodovski and Visokoi islands. South Sandwich Islands. November and December 2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Mursi and Surma women are the last women in the world to wear lip plates. Mursi village of Dargui in Mago National Park, near Jinka. Ethiopia. September and October 2007. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis), drawn to the Valdés Peninsula because of the shelter provided by its two gulfs, the Golfo San José and the Golfo Nuevo, often navigate with their tails upright in the water. Valdés Peninsula. Argentina. 2004. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Since elephants (Loxodonta africana) are hunted by poachers in Zambia, they are scared of humans and vehicles, they usually run quickly into the bush. Kafue National Park, Zambia. 2010. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Large sand dunes between Albrg and Tin Merzouga, Tadrart. South of Djanet, Algeria. 2009. &copy Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Large sand dunes between Albrg and Tin Merzouga, Tadrart. South of Djanet, Algeria. 2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Bighorn Creek in the western part of the Kluane National Park. Canada. 2011. &copy Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Bighorn Creek in the western part of the Kluane National Park. Canada. 2011. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Teureum, sikeirei and leader of the Mentawai clan. This shaman is preparing a filter for sago, with the leaves of this same tree. Siberut Island. West Sumatra. Indonesia. 2008. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

Performer of the singsing festival of Mount Hagen. Western Highlands Province. Papua New Guinea. 2008.

When the weather is particularly hostile, the Nenets and their reindeer may spend several days in the same place. North of Ob River. Inside the Arctic Circle. Yamal Peninsula. Siberia. Russia. 2011. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

The biguatinga, or anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), is a large aquatic bird with an 33-inch (84-centimeter) wingspan. Mato Grosso, Brazil. 2011. &copy Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

The biguatinga, or anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), is a large aquatic bird with an 33-inch (84-centimeter) wingspan. Mato Grosso, Brazil. 2011. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto

In the Upper Xingu region of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, a group of Waura fish in the Piulaga Lake near their village. The Upper Xingu Basin is home to an ethnically diverse population. Brazil. 2005. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contacto