"It felt as if the end were nigh. With the sun obliterated by dark smoke, a Dantean landscape stretched as far as the eye could see. The horizon itself was marked by torches of fire where burning oil leapt from the lifeless desert."
~ Sebastião Salgado
(1944-2025)
This remains one of the most powerful and unflinching bodies of photojournalism ever made—by a man who, in my view, stands among the very greatest.
