Sebastiao Salgado famously took breathtaking photographs of the Serra Pelada in Brazil. This gold mine has been captured by many photographers through various voices and styles.
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29 responses to “The Story Behind These Heartbreaking Pictures | Serra Pelada”
our (hopefully, soon to be ex) president is himself a gold digger, and very fond of one Major Curió, a famous torturer and executioner from brazilian's military dictatorship era (right about the time this mine was founded). Serra Pelada is located in the city of Curionópolis (City of Curió), and that's not by accident.
perhaps THIS is what bolsonaro means when he says "(my) freedom is more important than life itself", when speaking about guns. this is his kind of freedom.
This video is a good reminder to all Brazilians before second rounds of the presidential election.
Woah that’s crazy. They look almost like an ant hill but more
Thích những người bên đạo dậy đàn hay như vậy:)).
Salgado's work looks like evil Where's Waldo.
Please make a video on the paintings of Vasudev Gaitonde.
"Photography and how art can intersect with it"? Photography IS art. Love the video though, amazing art and analysis.
impactful pictures no doubt, and your narration as always is soothing and on point. one little thing tho, you pronounce Alfredo Jaar's name right but you wrote "Aldredo" in the subtitles shown in the video. just a little nitpick that does not, in any way, subtract from the quality of this video piece. please keep doing what you're doing, it's really good.
Check out the opening of Powaqqatsi, a film by Godfrey Reggio, with a score by Philip Glass
away from the bright lights of downtown skyline , the day in day out misery of millions of lives go untold ……..but for a few glimpses
Wow 😯
Amazing photography
Wow. I’ve never heard of this mine. Incredible photos. 🤯
Did they get rich?
Questions arise through my mind hearing these statements …..,,,,freedom from what? They were college graduates ????
It is so cool to me how with your previous video you talked about some of the evil in capitalism and now with this video you tackle the evil that can be found in fascist and communist countries. I find it awesome that you covered both of these types of government with no bias and you use art history to show the bad in both of them.
thanks for bringing this story in such an important day for brazilians to get rid of this horrible facist president, Bolsonaro
Lula nessa porra caralho
Apart from the topic and message that this video carries, into a completely different discourse, looking at these photos, I always have the thought that all the past is human, all these bodies packed in that space like machines, all that anthill controlled by who knows what kind of consciousness it was capable of creating many miracles in the past that we today admire and attribute to cosmic origin, mud and water are the beginning and end of everything in this ordinary, endlessly boring and repetitive world…
It's agonizing listening to you. Your very very good! My, what an incredible upload! Insightful. Another worthy contribution to the artistic historic narrative. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
One thing I think you didn't really say was that many workers were there because they had nowhere else to be, people that lived in the terrible conditions of 80s North Region and didn't have access to anything really, the dream of escaping poverty brought them there, and not even the terrible inhumane conditions could drive them out. The people were there because it was that or starve, not mostly because they had a job that they didn't like.
you're videos leave with an insatiable need to learn more.
incredible photography.
thankyou.
Eita porra, é nois Brazilzão.
Hoje o bozo caí.
Wow wow wow
Brazil moment
Being able to properly convey scope and scale (especially of this size) is in my opinion probably the greatest, most elite skill in photography. It's the same reason movies like Apocalypse Now and the Lord of the Rings movies are so revered.
These photos are all absolutely insane. And they do an amazing job riding the line between being povertyporn and just being an accurate depiction of the magnitude of this operation – while still maintaining incredible amounts of emotional depth. All these photos are just so staggeringly… alive. Biblical even.
Salgado especially is just straight up one of the best to ever hold a camera.
It feels a mix of emotions learning that the people worked there weren't actually being coerced to do so, but actually doing that work for escaping what awaits them. It is very relatable after learning this fact, the start of the video feels a pity, but the end feels an empty contemplation
you sound calmer and.. different than you usually do, under the weather or feeling sad? either way, hope you'll be okay and thank you for talking about such a wide range of topics and showing how art can portray various events.
bruhg
Serra Pelada foi um marco na história do Brasil.