Reviews for Ancestral dialogues

The average rating for Ancestral dialogues based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-12 00:00:00 Chris Vaszary But light is a secret buried under the garbage and Salgado's photographs tell us that secret. The emergence of the image from the waters of the developer, when the light becomes forever fixed in shadow is a unique moment that detaches itself from time and is transformed into forever. These photographs will live on after their subjects and their author, bearing testimony to the world's naked truth and hidden splendor. Salgado's camera moves about the violent darkness, seeking light, stalking light. Does the light descend from the sky or rise out of us? That instant of trapped light - that gleam - in the photographs reveals to us what is unseen, what is seen but unnoticed; an unperceived presence, a powerful absence. It shows us that concealed within the pain of living and the tragedy of dying there is potent magic, a luminous mystery that redeems the human adventure in the world. Excerpt from introduction by Eduardo Galeano

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-05 00:00:00 Klaas Butter Monks and NGOs work for the disenfranchised and forgotten, trying to improve lots and lives. Salgado, clearly one of the greatest photographers of the modern era, gifts them with immortality through the use of shutter and lens.