Photographer: Sebastiao Salgado

Title: "Fortress of Solitude"

Sebastiao Salgado: "Fortress of Solitude," from the series "Genesis," Antarctica, 2005
Salgado captures the magnificence of the natural world on a voyage to Antarctica. Traveling for days to find this unique iceberg, he considers the work to be his first true photograph of the journey and describes its structure as that of a medieval castle. As with all his works, the photograph is shot with black-and-white film and resonates with Salgado's adherence to simplicity. This work is from the series "Genesis," a project sponsored by the United Nations, the United Nations Environmental Project, UNESCO, and The Guardian. "Genesis" is Salgado's eight-year mission to document environments and communities around the world in their pure state.

Sebastiao Salgado (Brazilian, b. 1944)

One of the world's most renowned photojournalists, SebastiÃo Salgado originally trained as an economist. After completing his Ph.D. in economics in 1971, he worked at the International Coffee Organization in London, where he was required to make frequent trips to Africa. His desire to document these experiences sparked his interest in photography. By 1974, he was freelancing as a photojournalist for the Sygma agency in Paris, and later joined Magnum Photos. Salgado has produced a number of extended documentary series, which have been the subject of several books. These include "Workers," a worldwide investigation of the increasing obsolescence of manual labor that won the Arles International Festival's prize for best photography book. Salgado has won numerous major awards for his work, including the Eugene Smith Award for Humanitarian Photography, two ICP Infinity Awards, and the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Award. Salgado is a knight of the French Legion of Honor and a member of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Image size: 20 x 14.5 inches (landscape)

Approx. framed size: 28 x 23 inches