“I worked 12-15 hours a day. I couldn’t stop myself with the brilliant constant light. When you have a sunset in Europe it is maybe half an hour or an hour. Here we had five or six hours.”
Sebastião Salgado
(1944 - 2025)
In his epic project “Genesis” Sebastião set out to capture Antarctica’s breathtaking beauty and he succeeded I think beyond even his own high expectations. Deception Island with its concealed hot springs is favored by Chinstrap Penguins. This is the perfect image to place in a child’s bedroom. When my younger daughter was very young and had problems sleeping she used to wake up constantly. When this happened I advised her to start counting the penguins in this photograph which she diligently did and then fell back miraculously to sleep. Photography as a savior as well as an object of power and beauty!
