Thanks to this documentary I have meet Sebastiao Salgado. I think he is a mighty and philanthropic person. Actually every photographer must see this film...Salgado trained as an economist but turned to photography after borrowing his wife's camera. His work – pictures of gold diggers scurrying up a mountain, war photographs, studies of Amazonian tribes folk or the nature pictures he has started taking late in his career – is awe-inspiring.Salgado remains, unyielding, an enigma. Even with his speaking face often materializing ghost-like at the heart of his pictures, we still don't quite know him. All we know is the photos — and their power to make us gasp at tragic images by giving them a look-twice grandeur you could dismiss as "beauty" or just call great art.

Werner Herzog knows how to make a human story. Be it a feature film or like in this case a documentary. I've seen documentaries where the filmmakers tried hard but failed to get the essence of the subject they tried to portray. This does not happen here. Obviously the subject matter itself is not always an easy one to stomach.But if you can and you're genuinely interested in the work of the photographer (even if you didn't really know much about him, like myself, prior to watching this movie), this will be more than an interesting watch for you. I avoid saying entertaining, because as stated, it is a tough watch at times. The (mostly) black and white nature of it all is enhancing the dreadful feeling, but also elevates it into another class.

A magnificent piece of work. A long trip through the work of Sebastião Salgado. Essentially it covers his trip from Brazil all round the world and back again to Brazil. It gives a glimpse of some of the photographs from his books, some biography from his son and the vistas where we took these photos. There's some of the story about "Migrations" including ex- Yugoslavia. There's some footage about "Workers". Then there's the Rwanda massacre. This leads him to say that humanity is terrible. Something I don't agree with, in spite of humanities's worse atrocities. But then he comes back with "Genesis" an uplifting story about nature and humanity. In a sense he seems to get over the atrocities and see positive aspects to the human race. This ends with the re-forestation of his home farm. all in all a fascinating trip ending with an optimistic ending.

Never mind the documentary side of things, this is very much a photography watching paradise. Yes, as you can imagine, there is a bit of storytelling about the photographer himself, but the salt of the earth is not pretending to be a tabloid in video format. Who cares anyway? I don't. All I want to see is more and more work by this great man. Sincerely, during the first 1H30 of the movie, until he returns to Brazil, I did not go 1 minute of the film without being awed by the marvelous visuals I was witnessing. It is surely one of the most enjoyable documentaries I have ever seen. I feel like I have seen the planet with completely different eyes. Absolutely, compulsory viewing for photographers, planet lovers, and anyone with a mild interest for things.