David Brower Center (Venue Partner)
2150 Allston Way
510.809.0900
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Sebastião Salgado, Worker on the canal construction site, Rajasthan, India, 1989, Courtesy Sebastião Salgado / Amazonas images
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Opens Thursday May 14, 2009 (6–9pm)
May 15, 2009 – Jan 29, 2010
Mondays–Fridays (9am–5pm)
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Directions: One block from Downtown Berkeley BART station
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Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed — the hungry, the cheated, and the all-too-often ignored citizens of the so-called "third world." The former economist has traveled the globe since 1973 with two beautifully clear purposes: to highlight the dignity of the global poor's struggle, and to ingrain in all of us a sense of responsibility for their plight. The newly opened Brower Center — a facility that houses nonprofits dealing with environmental and social-justice causes — anoints its gallery space with a selection of Salgado's photographs that wrestle with environmental issues raised by the dirty effects of globalization.
