Exodus - Sebastião Salgado

This book, Exodus by Sebastião Salgado, published by Taschen, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it remains one of the most expansive and unflinching visual documents of forced migration ever committed to paper. First released at the turn of the millennium and now reissued in a hardcover slipcase edition, Exodus gathers Salgado’s decade-long photographic chronicle of exile, statelessness, and survival — from Rwandan refugee camps to the slums of Jakarta, from shipwrecked Albanians to the displaced of Latin America.

Shot entirely in black and white, these images are not just documentary — they are sculptural, reverent, and devastating. Salgado's camera, famously patient and immersive, renders the human condition not as spectacle but as evidence. This is not a book about crisis alone, but about structure: how politics, poverty, war, and climate redraw the map of where a body can exist. Each frame is a ledger of presence and persistence. With an included booklet and a design that amplifies the monumental gravity of its subject, Exodus is essential for those seeking to understand photography not only as witness, but as moral architecture.

Technical Sheet

Title: Exodus
Artist / Author: Sebastião Salgado
Date: n.d. (reissue edition)
Technique / Printing Method: Black-and-white offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover with booklet in slipcase
Dimensions: 24.8 x 33 cm
Pages: 432
Publisher / Editor: Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8365-6130-3
Language: English
Condition: New