On 8th February, 1944, Sebastião Salgado was born in Brazil. He went on to gain a scholarship for master's degree in economics, before getting married. When his wife bought a camera, Salgado took his first ever picture, of his wife. This inspired a career shift, with Salgado becoming enamoured by the very idea of photography, and taking it up as a full tie profession. Salgado travelled the globe, taking pictures of everyone and everything, yet there was always one constant in his work: the effects that people had on the world, and the art of photography.
Directed by Wim Wenders ('Wings of Desire') and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (son of Sebastião Salgado), 'The Salt of the Earth' is a documentary film about the life and work of Sebastião Salgado. The documentary has been nominated for 87th Academy Awards (on 22nd February 2015), after opening on 20th May 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Un Certain Regard. From there, the film went to the San Sebastián International Film Festival on 23rd September 2014, where it won the audience award. The film is set for a US release date of 27th March 2014.
Starring: Sebastiao Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Jacques Barthelemy, Lelia Wanick Salgado