Serra Pelada foi um marco na história do Brasil.

Being able to properly convey scope and scale (especially of this size) is in my opinion probably the greatest, most elite skill in photography. It's the same reason movies like Apocalypse Now and the Lord of the Rings movies are so revered. These photos are all absolutely insane. And they do an amazing job riding the line between being povertyporn and just being an accurate depiction of the magnitude of this operation - while still maintaining incredible amounts of emotional depth. All these photos are just so staggeringly... alive. Biblical even. Salgado especially is just straight up one of the best to ever hold a camera.

you sound calmer and.. different than you usually do, under the weather or feeling sad? either way, hope you'll be okay and thank you for talking about such a wide range of topics and showing how art can portray various events.

It feels a mix of emotions learning that the people worked there weren't actually being coerced to do so, but actually doing that work for escaping what awaits them. It is very relatable after learning this fact, the start of the video feels a pity, but the end feels an empty contemplation

I find it so beautiful that you decided to tell a story about our country, incredible and so full of sadness as well behind every single progress. Thank you for showing this. Sending love from Brazil! ♥

Wow. That's so surreal.

Brazil moment

I feel happy to see a creator that i admire so much make a video of an historical event in my country, Sebastião Salgado is a photographer that i found to be so fascinating and remarkable that only him could get such a human perspective in a place like that. I also love the depiction of brazilian people our "povo brasileiro" and it's strength on wanting to chance, we consider ourselves a very hardworking nation with a big dillema on dreaming for the better change.

One thing I think you didn't really say was that many workers were there because they had nowhere else to be, people that lived in the terrible conditions of 80s North Region and didn't have access to anything really, the dream of escaping poverty brought them there, and not even the terrible inhumane conditions could drive them out. The people were there because it was that or starve, not mostly because they had a job that they didn't like.

A 1-hour documentary called "Gold Lust" (1984) remains an unforgettable memory for me, and forever after left me unable to complain when my work became too "hard." I've looked and looked but been unable to find it. This short clip will have to do. Many thanks.

you're videos leave with an insatiable need to learn more. incredible photography. thankyou.

Amazing pictures. Humans are represented in such a significant way in these images.

Wow. I’ve never heard of this mine. Incredible photos. 🤯

Wow 😯 Amazing photography

Phenomenal work, presentation and narration.

Art explained with such peaceful voice and music, that's what I needed in my life.

away from the bright lights of downtown skyline , the day in day out misery of millions of lives go untold ........but for a few glimpses

Wonderful channel. Hope you show case more non Eurocentric art in future videos.

"Photography and how art can intersect with it"? Photography IS art. Love the video though, amazing art and analysis.

Check out the opening of Powaqqatsi, a film by Godfrey Reggio, with a score by Philip Glass

Every video of yours is fascinating, I applaud you for this high quality content

You do an excellent job on all your videos…bravo!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

impactful pictures no doubt, and your narration as always is soothing and on point. one little thing tho, you pronounce Alfredo Jaar's name right but you wrote "Aldredo" in the subtitles shown in the video. just a little nitpick that does not, in any way, subtract from the quality of this video piece. please keep doing what you're doing, it's really good.

3:45 This photography also feels like it's very old, some relic from a distant past.

Nice video

This video is a good reminder to all Brazilians before second rounds of the presidential election.

love the vid. have you seen sal da terra? in it, sebastiao says he never saw a single person fall. "we were there to work, not to fall."

My uncle tried to mine there and died there too

Nice video, but have you got any idea how to get the reproduction rights of the pictures of Sebastiao Salgado? I want to use one on the cover of a book. Thanks!

Wow wow wow

As Marx had shown, workers are not slaves as chattel slaves were in the USA, but we are nonetheless slaves - wage slaves - held by "a thousand invisible threads".

I could’ve fallen off one of those ladders and it wouldn’t have hit me as hard as the reason why all those people are at the mines in the first place.

You could also see those images from some of the mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia as well and it shows how poverty on those countries would really looks like. It's very pity and sad. 😢

can you tell me where I can watch the entire documentary from Jarre thank you very much🌷

Woah that’s crazy. They look almost like an ant hill but more

Thích những người bên đạo dậy đàn hay như vậy:)).

Total official produce 48 TON Gold

Please make a video on the paintings of Vasudev Gaitonde.

Believe it or not when I look at these pictures... I see modern day corporate America. Has anyone interviewed these men to get first hand accounts about what they did after the sun set, etc

4:28 5:58

Pray for the poor all over the world :(

Questions arise through my mind hearing these statements .....,,,,freedom from what? They were college graduates ????

Is this me or this video is suppressed??

People were there BECAUSE it was that or starve, no one there had another option, saying that there was actually someone there that had another opportunity is wrong. They were there to not starve, no one wanted to get rich. I find it very wrong to say that people were there because they wanted to "escape the need of want".

The world is a vampire

thanks for bringing this story in such an important day for brazilians to get rid of this horrible facist president, Bolsonaro

Sometimes taking an abstract. over intellectualised view of images trivialises them. This is the case here. This isn't art, those are real people.

This is Brazil. A country made by people that are enslaved, coerced and desperate. A country made by people that cant read and politicians that lie to all of us, promising food and peace. Things that we dont have. We suffer by the law, by the crime. All the gringos, the foreigners, see us suffering and strugling, and think about their ghettos. Their ghettos is our day-to-day. Our life is surviving. Our life is strugling. But our life is finding happiness in the small things, a bbq in the weekend, a hug of a parent, a smile of our friends, a good talk with the driver of the bus or a song by the train musicians wanting some coins This is Brazil. I am brazilian. I will be a brazilian forever... With pride.

Fora bozo!!!!

No one has any idea how bad the pollution is. Talking millions of people maybe tens of millions.

Salgado's work looks like evil Where's Waldo.

It is so cool to me how with your previous video you talked about some of the evil in capitalism and now with this video you tackle the evil that can be found in fascist and communist countries. I find it awesome that you covered both of these types of government with no bias and you use art history to show the bad in both of them.

Lula nessa porra caralho

Did they get rich?

bruhg

Eita porra, é nois Brazilzão. Hoje o bozo caí.

Let's be clear: The photographer is NOT an Artist...O.K.?

banksters create this and enjoy doing this