Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

The Profile

Wim Wenders is a German film director. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado co-directed The Salt of the Earth and is the son of photographer Sebastião Salgado.

The Salt of the Earth (Il sale della terra) is a 2014 documentary co-directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado about the photographer Sebastião Salgado and his projects including Workers, Migrations and Genesis.

Reviews praise The Salt of the Earth as a powerful documentary-slideshow celebrating Sebastião Salgado's black-and-white photography. Critics highlight the film's moral weight, its sequence of striking images, and the arc from social denunciation to the Genesis project. Both reviewers recommend viewing on the big screen for full impact.