“It is perhaps an odd thing for a Brazilian to admit, but I never drink coffee and yet it runs through my veins. Indeed at several key moments in my life, coffee has played a central role in my life. I was deeply familiar with its culture which for the most part exists in silent isolation in remote mountain regions of developing countries, far from the urban homes, offices and cafes where coffee represents a dramatically different way of life.”
~ Sebastião Salgado
I have always thought that this was one of Sebastião’s most beautiful images and was so deeply moved by it when I first saw it in 2003. It is just a quiet, deeply empathetic study of a moment of someone’s daily life but captured with such dignity and respect which is what his life’s work was all about. He is surely missed.
