NATURE IN ITS PURE STATE.
The other day we went with those from the institute to Girona to see an exhibition of Sebastiao Salgado. I was expecting the typical exhibition of nice photos that left you indifferent, but to my surprise, the images were amazing.
Sebastiao Salgado is a photographer born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, about 73 years old. He studied economics and worked on it until 1973, when he decided that he wanted to dedicate himself to photography.
All the photographs that were in the exhibition that we went to see were incredible, but there was an in particular that caught my attention:
Western Highlands. Papua New Guinea
Everything and that this image is made in 2008, transports you to a remote time, where everything was just as nature had created it, without any change or modification. The image shows how, in a totally primitive situation, this man manages to camouflage himself and be part of the nature where he lives. It shows the true instinct of survival and adaptation, where a human can become a plant so that large predators do not eat it, or to pass unnoticed among the victims who will provide food.
It shows us that over time we have been changing everything, destroying everything natural in our way to create a material world in which we need more and more things that really are not important.
It seems strange to me that we are shocked to see a photo like that of this man, in which nature sees itself, as we were and lived for thousands of years, without realizing that we are really strange are us, dependent on each other, with our advanced technology and our totally artificial way of life.
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