Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado (1944) is a Brazilian social-documentary photographer. He took this picture in Kuwait in 1991. The first Gulf war had just ended, but the oil wells
were still burning. This picture shows a group of specialist firefighters from
Canada who were trying to extinguish the fire and to stop the oil from leaking.
They worked with metal tools that had the potential to cause a fire that would
have engulfed them all, if a spark had been made through a hard enough scraping
of the metal instrument. I admire his work because of the level of personal attachment
that he has with his subjects; he tells stories instead of taking single
pictures.
Salgado took this breath-taking picture in
the South Sandwich Islands, near the Antarctic (2009)
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