“ Salgado spent several weeks in 1986 living at the Serra Pelada (‘naked mountain’) gold mine in north-west Brazil and observing its workers. Around 50 thousand miners worked there. Each one made as many as 60 trips down the cliff and back every day....

  • Salgado spent several weeks in 1986 living at the Serra Pelada (‘naked mountain’) gold mine in north-west Brazil and observing its workers. Around 50 thousand miners worked there. Each one made as many as 60 trips down the cliff and back every day. The sacks they carried weighed up to 60 kilograms. For each of these journeys they were paid 20 cents. Focusing on the miners’ dirty legs rather than their faces, Salgado highlights the dehumanising working conditions at the mine. People are treated as little more than machines to extract and transport the valuable ore.

    © Sebastião Salgado


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    February 23, 2023original post
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