Motivfindender

Wilfredo,

I will never forget the great Salgado exhibition in the Gaudi-House in Barcelona (roundabout in the year 2002, his 60th anniversary) the which I had the pleasure to visit. A whole retrospective of his life as photographer.
I rested all the day in the exhibition and was owerwhelmed of the strength of his pictures full of empathy, humanist statements and technical perfection. What a photographer!!

The prints themselves from the technical point of view are just fantastic, absolutely owerwhelming also.
I own also the Book Africa, but the big prints in the exhibition are a Universe for themselves.
If you have ONCE the chance to visit one of his exhibitions, go for it.

You have the same photographers empathy - so you also will be impressed for a lifetime.

As for Vietnam:
In fact, it was the photographers victory, that this slaughterhouse ended. The strength of their Photos, their Films. Some of them sacrified their lifes for free information.

In "embedded" Photographers times this type of journalism doesn´t exist furthermore.
And THAT is a nightmare.

Dirk