Sebastiao Salgado - Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986

This offset/digital print was made in 2001, as an example for the production of a book by Sebastiao Salgado . It is a unique item (1/1) and is in excellent condition.
.With permission of the photographer.

Salgado, armed with his camera in 1986, makes the whole world discover the harsh reality of the Serra Pelada, a Brazilian open-pit gold mine where more than 50,000 men work, to the death and in terrible conditions, no one here is driven by violence, everyone is attracted by the call of gold, and then becomes a slave, with loads of mud and earth in a seal that could be freedom. These miners, with muscular bodies that sweat every day, these prospectors who form an anthill in the dust, are stuck in fatigue.

A picture where some search deeply and others climb this terrible ravine on ladders of improvised, of heavy bags that they carry on their heads, image in which he reveals this scandal of the eighties through its cruelty and its working conditions, drawing a portrait of a teeming and dramatic humanity, which helps to make this Dantesque hell known to the world.