from Sebastião Salgado, Africa, Taschen, USA, 2007
Child worker at the Mata tea plantation. Rwanda, 1991.
Photographs by Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images. Organized by Lélia Wanick Salgado, the exhibition curator.
■Period：October 24→ December 13,2009
■Closed Day：Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
■Venue：Exhibition Gallery, 2F
■Admission：Adults ￥800（640）／College Students ￥700（560）／High School and Junior Hight School Students, Over 65 ￥600（480）
※ The figure in parentheses refers to a group discount rate applicable to groups of 20 people or more and a discount rate applicable to members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. ※Admission is free of charge for primary school students & younger children, disabled persons and their caretakers. ※Admission is free of charge for persons aged 65 or older on the third Wednesday of each month.
Sebastião Salgado is a pioneer of the photo-documentary genre who is still active today and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is delighted to present an exhibition of his latest work, entitled ‘Africa’.
In this exhibition, we look at the true state of Africa, which is sometimes referred to as ‘the neglected continent,’ through the eyes of Sebastião Salgado, who started his career as an economist. Since he first began photographing Africa in the 1970s, various campaigns have been held around the world to prevent starvation and desertification there, and numerous plans have been put into action. Despite this, all that has been achieved is a repetition of advances and retreats. Some regions suffer from endless wars or seemingly unstoppable environmental degradation, while some of the cities displayed rapid economical development for a period and the continent’s natural resources continue to attract international attention. How we should acknowledge and respond to the widening gulf that exists between rich and poor in Africa is a universal question that faces all the countries in the world.
Sebastião Salgado is currently involved with his ‘GENESIS’ series, which he says is the last major project he will work on. For this project, he is traveling the world to cover places never before visited by Westerners, but the project is not limited to photography, he also uses education and tree planting in an effort to demonstrate Earth’s bounty and present a new look at the history of mankind. The upcoming exhibition will consist of approximately 100 works, including some of the latest from the ‘GENESIS’ project.
【Lecture】
★Sebastião Salgado “Africa and Genesis”
2009.10.24 14:00〜15:30
★KONAKA Takafumi (JAICA)“Africa”
2009.11.7 13:00〜15:00 @ TMMOP Atelier 1 / for 70 people
★Floor Lecture by curator of TMMOP
2nd and 4th Friday 14:00〜 @2F Gallery
■Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / The Asahi Shimbun
■Sponsored by Toppan Printing Inc. / Japan Photo Culter Association
■With the assistance of the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo, Embassy of France in Tokyo
■With cooperation of Air France, Nippon Photography Institute
