“Africa” . An exhibition premiered by the Brasilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. From February 9th to March 24th 2019 in Reggio Emilia.

Salgado is one of the most important photographers of our time. This fame has been achieved thanks to the reports made over several decades to witness the lives of poor and marginalized people, taking powerful black and white images in the most remote places on the planet. Not only poverty Salgado, is very close to the destinies of migrants and with his shots wants to draw the public’s attention to their suffering.

During his first trips to the African continent, on behalf of the World Coffee Organization, Salgado began to learn about Africa, immediately understanding that to find solutions to the problems of the Third World, it was necessary that these be documented. Thus began a mission to which he dedicated 30 years of his life.

The tool that will take him to realize his projects will be the camera, with which he produces over 40 reports, immortalizing tribes from Namibia to Sudan, the overwhelming nature of the landscapes of the Great Lakes Region, following routes and destinies of refugees in every part of the continent during historical periods and different climatic changes. With his photos Salgado makes us touch the disastrous effects produced by wars, famines, diseases and hostile climatic conditions, always managing to capture the essence of unique moments. Watching a photo of him captures and excites us, leading us straight into that place, alongside that person.

The photographic exhibition of Sebastião Salgado, divided into two parts and spread over two locations: the first part collects the work done in the travels and explorations of Salgado between 1974 and 2005 in the south of the continent between Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe , South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo, Zaire and Namibia. The second one is dedicated to the reports made between 1973 and 2006 in the Great Lakes Regions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire, Kenya Rwanda and in the sub-Saharan regions Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia.