Wars have been fought over salt. Soldiers were paid in salt. An important element to your body is salt. Salt was a form of wealth. Salt was used to preserve food.

You are the salt of the Earth. You flavor the World. Do not be salt that loses its flavor. Along with the salt comes the light. Let your light shine and be the salt of the Earth.

Our appetite for salt and the meanings we attach to it have linked the ages. Salt literally gives us life, and reminds us of the origins of all life in the primordial sea.

It has motivated the pious, the warlike, the superstitious and the revolutionary. It has shaped history and inspired storytellers, artists and cooks. It is a commodity, a cure and a medium for artistic carving.

Although it is essential to many modern industrial processes, the basic methods of producing salt have not changed for centuries – boil, evaporate, mine.

The Human body contains about four ounces of salt. Without enough of it, muscles will not contract, blood will not circulate, food will not digest, the heart will not beat.

Salgado began a career as an economist. During a visit to Paris, his wife Lélia bought a camera, and he discovered his Love of photography.

He chose to abandon a career as an economist and the transition from economist to artist and explorer began and eventually he switched to photography in 1973.

He began working full time as a photographer, first news photography then documentary style. He has witnessed and documented many of the major events of our times, wars, famine, genocide and exodus.

Salgado‘s work explored natural environments and the Humans who inhabit them.

His black and white photographs illuminated how the environment and Humans are exploited to maximize profit for the global economic market.

He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects and has been appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.