Sebastiào Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado has some very powerful pieces of art. They all seem to take a look into something to do with different aspects of society. He also has different cultures he looks at whit his images. Whether it is images that suggest people being starved to images that show just how busy people can be. He seems to have a very intense look at the world. Capturing things that most people do not think of every day.

Out of all of Sebastiao's pieces of art, this one stood out to me the most. It takes a look at something people would be using every day, a train, and reverses the role it has with people. Normally it would be the trains that should be moving fast and being blurred yet he flips that to have the people blurred. When I look at it, it suggests just how busy people can be without realizing it. I get the idea that without people, things will be nothing more than that, things. Without people, the trains would have no purpose. For me, he uses the blurred people to represent people will always be what keeps moving no matter what.

Though this could easily be switched and interpreted that man is nothing without our things due to the two trains being the main focus and not being blurred out. How we rely on our objects to keep life moving.