"I remember once I was working in Alaska. I was in The Brooks Range. I had a small plane that drove me to a point and left me there and came back for me one week or ten days later because in Alaska you cannot fly always. It was June. You have the cold air coming from the Arctic and hot air from inside Alaska and they meet over this Brooks Range, over this mountain and it creates a lot of micro climate. In June I had a lot of snow and a lot of rain, hot, cold, everything happened there. The plane was forced to leave me there. I’m sitting there all day long in front of the mountain. You are the planet. You are part of all this together and you see how the wind cuts at this mountain like a knife and it creates sand that will create soil and you see all the vegetation. The small vegetation fights to survive. It’s amazing."Sebastião Salgado(1944 - 2025)
Sebastião's words give us an insight into what it takes to create one single magical image, probably the key image in his breathtaking eight year Genesis project. That is why it is on the cover of the book of the project. The amount of dedication and blood, sweat and tears and financial resources it took to pull off such an epic project is just incomprehensible. Sebastião was a true force of nature, the like of which we are not likely to see again for a long time to come.
