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The Witness and the Wound: Seeing with Sebastião Salgado 

            “I photograph to testify, not to preserve.”                                  - Sebastião Salgado, quoted in Lélia Wanick Salgado (ed.), Genesis                                         (Cologne: Taschen, 2013), 14. It was Fall 2005, and I had made my way to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to see Sebastião Salgado: Territories and Lives. More than an exhibition, it was a map…

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