Julio Aguilar
Sebastião Salgado. "22 Refugees heading for Sudan"
1985
Sebastião Salgado has an ability to analyze extreme situation. He has a fierce drive to show what he truly is, a humanist photographer. In his book Sebastião Salgado, Salqado shows his beliefs with great passion. I stumbled on a page which caught my eye the instant I saw it. The photo was called "twenty two refugees heading to Sudan." The reason it caught my eye was because it gave me hope. The way that everyone is huddled together trying to keep each other safe shows the kindness that humanity still has. But one great detail gives this picture its meaning, to me. The "God Rays" beaming through the trees. The light hits the refugees in an astonishing way, showing as if there is a higher being watching over them in their journey to "paradise."
