The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth is a movie starring Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, and Lélia Wanick Salgado. The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of...
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.