Word: sebastiao
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...look at Cristo Redentor I think of Catedral de Sao Sebastiao and then all those Afro-Brazilian worshipers thinking about their own gods during Christian ceremonies. I wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...
Fast-action photography is no great trick anymore. The real trick is to pin down the slow motions that make the great arcs of history. This is what photographer Sebastiao Salgado has done over the past 10 years, as he traveled everywhere to watch and think about the relocations caused by war and the whiplashings of the global economy. And to show them. In Africa, Asia and the Balkans, it was knives and gunfire that moved millions of refugees. In Asia and Latin America, the simple but still desperate search for work pushed millions to the overpacked cities. The pictures...