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Sebastião SALGADO has worked in Africa since the beginning of his career. His first reportage in Niger was in the 1970s, when he reported on the wars of independence in Angola, Mozambique and the Spanish Sahara. Since then, he has photographed disasters that have struck Africa's populations, the drought in Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad, the genocide in Rwanda, thousands of refugees crammed into makeshift camps, starving, dying of thirst or being carried off by epidemics. He also photographed Africans working in agriculture and fishing and portrayed those who returned home after many years of exile.
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For this project, Sebastião SALGADO returned to Africa to capture the pride and beauty of this continent in pictures: the dunes and the Himba people in Namibia, the Dinka in southern Sudan, the mountain gorillas and the Virunga region with its volcanoes in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The photographs are part of the ongoing 'Genesis' project - a series of black and white photographs of landscapes, fauna, flora and human communities. This work is designed as an exploration of nature still in its pristine state.