Over two and a half centuries ago, in his influential essay “A Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau presented a persuasive argument: primitive human societies prior to the advent of agriculture, approximately 10,000 years ago, were inherently egalitarian.
Standing outside a store with a long—very long—line of people waiting to buy eggs, I started to chat with a woman in her 50s who lived in the Havana neighborhood.
The transformation hits you as soon as you cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mexico is not a poor country; it is an unequal country.
“It was said that I was doing aesthetics of misery.
Bullshit! I photograph my world”
Sebastião Salgado
I submitted these three images to the contest because I believe they capture the essence of contemporary Peru: a country deeply marked by its social, political and political contrasts.
This 2022 photographic series shows the urban dichotomy in Lima, especially on the border with Santiago de Surco and Pamplona Alta.
“It was said that I was doing aesthetics of misery.
Bullshit! I photograph my world”
Sebastião Salgado
“It was said that I was doing aesthetics of misery.
Bullshit! I photograph my world”
Sebastião Salgado
