Sebastião Salgado

Polka Gallery is pleased to present Magnum Opus by Sebastião Salgado.

Magnum Opus is an original proposal by Sebastião Salgado: fifty images printed with the platinum-palladium technique in Georges Charlierís laboratory in Belgium, and for the first time in a limited edition of seven. 

These fifty images were chosen by the photographer and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado from among the most recent series, such as Amazonia and Genesis, but also from previous sets such as Other Americas, Sahel, Gold or The Hand of Man. 

 Created by William Willis in 1873, the platinum-palladium process allows the print, which is stable and almost unalterable, to last as long as the paper on which it rests. All the greatest photographers have used it, Irving Penn even going so far as to laminate the paper on aluminum to be able to print in several passes. 

Compared to conventional black and white silver prints, Sebasti„o Salgadoís platinum-palladium prints have a wide range of gray tones, a three-dimensionality and a unique light quality. 

To present this new opus, Polka gallery proposes to present in several times the entire selection of 50 prints. In January, a first set of 9 platinum-palladium prints will be presented on the gallery walls with images of AmazÙnia, Serra Pelada, Sahel and Genesis.