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Sebastião Salgado’s photographic exhibition’s world premier Genesis has started at London’s Natural History Museum. The balance of human relationships and majesty of nature with this fragile planet are invented through more than two hundred magnificent black and white snaps by this world renowned photographer.

The culmination of his photographic work, ‘Sebastião Salgado: Genesis’ exhibit draws together pictures of wildlife and landscapes, along with depictions of human communities which goes on to live in accordance with the old culture and traditions. The exhibit builds on Museum’s reputation as the home of the world’s best photography exhibitor.

speaking about this new photography exhibit, Salgado  told that this has been one of his longest photographic adventures – 8 years exploring, researching as well as celebrating the unspoiled legacy of nature. He has journeyed through thirty two nations re-discover the oceans, mountains and deserts; the animals as well as the people that have escaped the imprint of modern society till now.

He added that this is a pictorial depiction of the lives and lands of a still pristine world. Genesis exhibit also speaks to this age by sketching the magnificent beauty of a lost world which somehow survives. It says that this is what is in peril and this the thing that we must save.

Genesis is Salgado’s 3rd long term examination of recent global issues, after his previous well known collections Workers and Migrations. He has received numerous major photographic awards in recognition of his photography accomplishments. Recently, he has received Gold Medal Award for Photography from New York’s National Arts Club.

Three photos clicked by Vietnamese photographers in their country have been selected as finalists among forty seven others for Smithsonian magazine photo competition. The three photographs are ‘People Harvesting Salt at Sunset’ clicked by Hoang Giang Hai of Hanoi, ‘Alternating Rice Plots in the Bac Son Valley’ taken by Hai Thinh Hoang, who is also from Hanoi and ‘Rice Terraces Close to Harvest Season’ clicked by Vo Anh Kiet of Ho Chi Minh City.

The first photograph, showing the hardship of diligent lady working the salt fields. The snap was taken  in August 2012 in Ninh Hoa District which is in Khanh Hoa, the central coastal province. The second picture, a click of an early fog over the yellow rice paddy in Bac Son in Lang Son, the northern upland province.The photographer took the picture after he reached a 617 meters altitude after climbing up a mountain for 2 hours on 15th July 2012.

The third picture, depicting rolling rice terraces which are almost ready for harvesting in Mu Cang Chay in Yen Ba, the northern upland province. The photographers were among the several photographers who were there to click a picture of the life cycle of the grain in September 2012.

All these pictures have been grouped under ‘travel’ category which comprises of ten best pictures elected by US Smithsonian magazine’s editor. They selected the ten best pictures from 37600 pictures from 112 countries.