Sebastião Salgado Genesis Photography Book - Multicolour

The Sebastião Salgado Genesis photography book presents a series of haunting black-and-white photographs captured over an eight-year expedition, documenting landscapes and peoples untouched by modern development. Spanning 520 pages, the volume is divided into five geographic chapters — Planet South, Sanctuaries, Africa, Northern Spaces, and Amazonia and Pantanal — offering a comprehensive visual journey across the globe. Its construction includes 17 fold-outs, adding an expanded format to key photographic sequences throughout the book.

Taken over the course of an epic eight-year expedition and recording landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development, Sebastião Salgado's 'Genesis' project presents a series of haunting black-and-white photographs. The Taschen-published companion volume 'Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS' charts the results of the epic journey over 520 pages and is divided into five broad geographic chapters — Planet South, Sanctuaries, Africa, Northern Spaces, Amazonia and Pantanal — which are accompanied by 17 fold-outs.