It is a movie of Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders on the photojournalist Sebastião Salgado.
This is a black and white narrative that takes us back to the photographic journey of Sebastião Salgado throughout his career. It is mostly a split view on one hand, Wim Wenders focuses on the professional from the point of view of the fan of an iconic work. On the other, we have the look of the son, which addresses the lack of a father in constant motion motivated by the desire for other realities, other distant worlds that departed him from the family everyday. What is curious is that Juliano Ribeiro Salgado must be part of that wandering in order to be able to meet the father who was never present and lets us know him through this documentary. Gradually these two opposing views of the same man complement each other and are building a narrative that is not limited to admire the work, but also shows the more human side, more fragile and intimate of a man that perpetuate on pictures the worst and the best of human nature. As well it honors a third basic element for Sebastião Salgado's career, his wife, Lelia Warnick Salgado, because without her nothing would have been possible. The Salt of the earth is a remarkable documentary, because it is impossible to remain indifferent to the darkest images of human history captured by the razor-sharp lens of Sebastião Salgado, but at the same time ends with a breath of hope when addresses his last major photographic project génesis and also the work of the Earth Institute, an environmental non-profit organization founded by the family Salgado, which aims to reforest the Atlantic forest in southwestern Brazil.
