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ALSO AVAILABLE a film by PAUL CARLIN THE SPECTRE | GENESIS OF THE FILM OF HOPE | with SEBASTIAO SALGADO ‘and JOHN BERGER. omincd by machines. Who on aor, | wondered, wos the mon who coud combine sch rong of tents inetd Wel I wold nd cu Iw bc cain tht wont 2 rode the fin Tn suggested. The chalenge af making moving image ut of il phlographs was snply on added ince fo (work which | wos corn wuld lumina te condition of ot es. Anda | want to Paris where Salgado bated ond wha, wth hs Ul, he hos contrced a hi Amazons Im ‘get — that lows him io undeike his emarkbla werk. My ris this huge orchive cum sles ogarcy was one ofthe mos ening days of my le showed ma the aol of he fro on which Slgado had embarked — to rock he move rns of peoples con Bie continents onging hom Ruan Jw moving othe Unied Stole onlespeotns loving the coun ty forthe iy tn America in Alice, in i, Wo showed ine the metuovs core with whch th phtogrphs ware do: rested and stored. Filly it gave me a chance a undernd he tna, Selgod had sed hi profesor Ife oto development coromistwerkingn Abc, Hirt eamerahod bean hs wil’ lo wor on architect ond need one forhe work eb ie Salgado became cbuezed wih he pssiiies lhe camera at he baconedasoned wih the forms of Third World develo ret Hi dream wos oreo the changes in he worl hat is od ob hod made hm aloo oware of. ia, ower, he hod ‘ors ing nd in Parise bacame @poporars, cating pho Se eG mum — te gece photographie agency i rom ie urderod ha Salgado wat a gta! phous. Hi dram, however, wos owe that journal als ot fhe seria of tomers tine bt acre’ try Fo thot be nseded o at enough money ae hima fom he donords of nempapers cod cllow tno nigra fo beck od tel leer, Te sgl moa porta cae cor tnd raw core came on 30h March 1981 ofthe Hin Hot in Westinglon. Salgado wos there o cover 2 macing of the AFLCIO thot war to be addrensed by Ronald Reagon, By 0 chance that he hs never been abla to exploin he opened doar Teoding ut of the bling ond found h world — ond tery Jon Hinctleyt owosinct Presiden Reopen. Solas fred of the echology of developing photograph, odd otf he od real worldwide sop, He had ond he hus began the proce alt eet ee cnet to cron he werd. Matos wes eos the biggest he hed undertaken and rom ta first doy n Salgad's sud | camera bu hen had wot several hur, uch wos aly imprint projet hat ws dtr finda way o prods fn ves, We red of wih th ids of tying ond some fonl way to lnk he photographs ogear but we couldn even convince ‘thes lt clone ober de end cir coal ax owe | Bagot fear ha he projet wos inking | than, cough sy sk of gos | rng vp John Berg. Berger avery bend mya oda has s0 many dive i capone, fia came book The Seventh Man, «bok ht ted word and photographs to aach he eso mmgron workers in Ero, hares ond nero were very loses Salgodss rojo The bok ad sich sn impac on meta hod sbrequy red everyhing that he 3! nll his Booker prizewaring novel G ond hi groundbreaking ons of noges Ways of Sing. Mere Inpointy hed geeduced en yoo ear a lm tht he had ‘writen ondin which he peromad cle Ploy Me Something. A the cena tor ba bee ld with photographs, 8 lo ebou! Jan's genres nd th impotence tat he ond lars he him oo side! whan | 160d hi ch he action tthe ln wos shat in moving images, 2: ofiendship that he responded my oer desparale calor lp Ye, he dd dite Salgod'phoographs thought af making aim fom sil mages wore fethang chat lenge. Bit dhe hve the tne and, perhaps more inert, wet thee relly on ideo that woud work The fist sp wot > convene inthe Amazonas inoget sido — not at Barge ond Slgedo but othe Nobel ie wring Porguete novel os Sve eee ig ck = Beni ea else ie das

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