Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world's forgotten people and places.

Some books from Sebastião

• The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease
• Genesis
• Sebastiao Salgado, Africa 
• Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age