The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.—Anonymous

Photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. Salgado and his work - instantly recognisable black and white photographs that have documented some of the major events of our recent history are revealed to us in this documentary.—yusufpiskin