Migrations
The photography of Sebastiao Salgado:
“Millions of migrants from poorer areas have swollen the new ‘mega-cities’ of India, Brazil, Mexico and other countries to a size that dwarfs the older models represented by New York and Paris. Haphazardly constructed, beset by social ills, these new mega-cities have many unfortunate similarities. As Sebastiao Salgado wrote, ‘At times I would forget where I was. Cairo? Jakarta? Mexico City? Everywhere there are those same islands of wealth amid the poverty, like the green areas of Manila that are private golf clubs instead of public parks’.”
“Wars have increasingly targeted civilians as terror has become a weapon of first resort. Millions of people have had to uproot themselves setting off on foot, in trucks, aboard overcrowded boats or trains to seek refuge. Those who survive often end up in sprawling refugee camps where existence continues to be precarious. Similarly, when poverty becomes intolerable many seek to move on, either for large cities or, if they are more adventurous, towards far-off prosperous nations.”
Part of the Migrations series (via)