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In Salgado's pictures: empathy, meaning and truth
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 10/02/2017
» Gaze at any of Sebastião Salgado's photographs and overwhelming emotion washes over you. The hauntingly magnificent black-and-white photos, which at times punch you right in the gut, depict the best and worst of the planet we live on. From the bleak mud-covered miners climbing hell-like pits of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil to petroleum-soaked workers in the war-torn oilfields of Kuwait, to the sun-kissed mountain ranges of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska -- Salgado's work possesses qualities many photographers today seem to have forgotten about in this image-saturated world: empathy, meaning, truth.
The Thai-French connection
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 02/08/2018
» A body of a naked woman lies lifeless on a muddy hill as curious bystanders look on; a ghostly shadow in front of an abandoned train station flails as if in pain; and on a footpath, an elderly woman sits dejected in front of her broken car, daydreaming.