Sebastião Salgado takes pictures but gives
sight.
Sebastião Salgado travels the world documenting the
shocking lives of the powerless. He portrays, "a sample of the human
condition on the planet today.”
Many people don't even know the definition of the
word refugee. I'll take a moment to enlighten you. A refugee is,
"A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to
escape war, persecution, or natural disaster." Imagine this
sight "it felt like the whole world was covered with refugee
tents." Salgado saw this scene. Salgado has witnessed many
horrifying events from the government withholding food in Ethiopia
causing a mass famine, to dead bodies covering parts of Rwanda on the
journey thousands took towards the boarder. He also saw the struggles
of Brazilian miners and others people thrown into the inhuman world of
manual labor.
Imagine a world where everyone is dying so rapidly that this
occurs: "I saw a dad chatting with his friend and threw his son into
a pile of corpses then left and continued chatting as if nothing had
happened." The awful truth is that this is not an imagined worst case
senario, this is a reality that most of the world is blind to.
Now we're going to open our eyes and see, what the world is like for a refugee.
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