Other Americas

Photographs show the people of Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala, including weddings, funerals, and scenes of everyday life. The overwhelming impression left by Salgado's photographs in Other Americas is that all is sadness, misery, and death.6 Hand-in-hand with this focus on the tragic is a dominant tone of enigma. All is enveloped in an incomprehensible and inexplicable mystery which makes enigmatic the hunger, poverty, misery, and death which appear in this book.