Almost forty years after Autres Amériques, Sebastião Salgado‘s first book published by Contrejour, the publishers are publishing his latest work, Glaciers, as a tribute to their late friend.
It falls within the 2025 International Year for Glacier Preservation, initiated by UNESCO, as 2024 was the hottest year on record.
Autres Amériques, published in 1986, is a collection of photographs, the result of numerous travels between 1977 and 1984, revisiting Latin America by evoking the persistence of peasant and Indian cultures. The convincing power of the black and white photographs, their visual power, and Lélia Salgado’s layout presenting most of the images on double pages contributed to the success of this book, which received the First Photo Book Prize and was reissued several times in four languages.
In October 2025, Contrejour published Glaciers, Sebastião Salgado’s final book, which he produced and supervised, thus concluding a publishing and friendship adventure, a form of homage and loyalty to the friend who passed away in May.
The book, designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado, brings together images selected in collaboration with Sebastião Salgado and offers an opportunity to discover and address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the climate crisis and the protection of delicate and essential natural ecosystems such as mountains and glaciers.
Sebastião Salgado : Glaciers
Contrejour
Editorial design by Lélia Wanick Salgado, preface by Elisa Palazzi
Format: 24 x 30 cm
128 pages
Price: €45
www.editions-contrejour.com
