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AMAZING

 

A real-life version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis

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I wonder whom influenced whom?

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Frizzers, when were these photos taken ?

 

1986!

 

Sebastião Salgado changed careers from economist to photographer in 1973. After a few years of covering news events he began working on the first of the major photographic projects that would begin to define his vision of the majority world. "Other Americas" depicted those Latin Americans who clung to traditional rural ways; "Famine in the Sahel" documented people attempting to survive in the worst of circumstances; and "Workers" explored the eroded status of the manual worker in the age of computers and high technology.

 

http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/

 

The worker is covered with shiny mud: the soil in the gold mine of Serra Pelada is rich in iron. Brazil, 1986.

 

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The worker is covered with shiny mud: the soil in the gold mine of Serra Pelada is rich in iron. Brazil, 1986.

 

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He nearly looks like a bronze statue

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Great pics, one of my favourite photographers alongside Don McCullin, really reiterates exactly what bad business practice can lead to.

 

It also leads me to one of my personal often-asked questions, shouldn't there be more environmental considerations put to posts on GEI about particular mining companies' human rights and environmental records? I have rarely seen these but now I've (temporarily) found my log on details maybe I might start a thread on this.

 

Anything thanks for the pics and your informed posts.

 

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It also leads me to one of my personal often-asked questions, shouldn't there be more environmental considerations put to posts on GEI about particular mining companies' human rights and environmental records? I have rarely seen these but now I've (temporarily) found my log on details maybe I might start a thread on this.

 

Please go ahead.

Have you spoken with company management about such concerns?

I promise you, the company that runs the mine in these photos will not be a modern canadian,

US, or British listed mining company.

 

There is only one company (which shall remain nameless), that I have refuse to invest in because

i didnt like their mining activities - so far, that is

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