The Stunningly Beautiful Photojournalism of Sebastião Salgado

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in USA, Sebastião Salgado has made a name for himself with 40+ years of stunning work, which have garnered him a great many awards and accolades.

Salgado:

“I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same, I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.”

Icebergs between the Zavodovski and Visokoi islands in the South Sandwich Islands, near Antarctica (2009)

Southern right whale near Argentina (2004)

Waura Indians on Puilanga Lake in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state (2005)

Churchgate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India (1995)

South Sandwich Islands (2009)

Alaska (2009)

The Mursi and the Surma women in Ethiopia wearing lip plates as a mark of high birth (2007)

Nenets in the Siberian Arctic, Russia (2011)

Marine iguana in Galápagos Islands (2005)

The mosque of Istiqlal, Jakarta, Indonesia (1996)

Two black-browed albatrosses near South Georgia (2009)

The Nenet people on the Siberian Yamal peninsula (2011)

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska (2009)

Mars Desert Research Station - Photos by Jim Urquhart

Photojournalist Jim Urquhart has this great set of photos from the Mars Desert Research Station,  which conducts dry runs for future Mars missions in the Utah desert.

From the Project Page:

"Mars is the great challenge of our time.

In order to help develop key knowledge needed to prepare for human Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making sensuous the vision of human exploration of Mars, the Mars Society has initiated the Mars Analog Research Station (MARS) project. A global program of Mars exploration operations research, the MARS project will include four Mars base-like habitats located in deserts in the Canadian Arctic, the American southwest, the Australian outback, and Iceland. In these Mars-like environments, we will launch a program of extensive long-duration geology and biology field exploration operations conducted in the same style and under many of the same constraints as they would on the Red Planet. By doing so, we will start the process of learning how to explore on Mars."