Sponsored by ACCIONA, from 31 May to 4 September, as part of the festival PHotoESPAÑA 2022, the Royal Palace is hosting an exhibition of landscape photographs by the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, part of the Royal Collections of Spain’s National Heritage institution, stored in the General Palace Archive and the Royal Palace Library.
It is a series of snapshots that depict the beauty of untamed nature, uncovering the vast wealth of our planet and highlighting the way mother earth tends to evolve without the footprint of human action.
The author of this series is Sebastião Salgado, a socio-documentary photographer and photojournalist born in Aimores (Brazil) in 1944, who has specialised in immortalising the forests and the different ecosystems that cover the globe. To create the series, he has travelled to more than 100 countries as part of several photodocumentary projects. He is also known for his exhibitions about poverty in the third world.
Through his work, he received the W. Eugene Smith Prize for Humanitarian Photography in 1982, the Hasselblad Foundation International Prize in 1989 and the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts in 2007. He is also the co-founder, along with his wife Lelia Wanick, of the Terra Institute, an organisation dedicated to the reforestation of natural spaces, which has recovered more than 297 species of native trees.
The National Heritage Royal Collections were created due to the interest in photography of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and today they are home to one of the largest repositories of international photographs with works by great 19th century European figures such as William Atkinson, Paul Nadar, Jean Laurent, Charles Clifford, and Wodbury & Page.
Image credits:
© Sebastião Salgado
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