Salt of the Earth (2014)

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I'm planning on going to see it tonight as I love spending my Friday evenings in a dark room watching depressing documentaries (last week it was The Look of Silence).

It's a documentary about the photographer Sebastião Salgado who has spent much of his traversing the globe and chronicling human life, much of it through a lens of disaster and misfortune (i.e. famines, international conflicts etc). As always with material like this he has been criticised of fetishising human misery, but I think I'll wait until I've lapped it all up before I pass judgement on whether his whole life's work was a sham.

I'm hoping it will be as good as McCullin, which explored the war photography of Don McCullin and was incredibly bleak yet fascinating at the same time.

Has anyone seen this? I know we've got some budding photographers and film buffs on here, so thoughts and comments on the film are encouraged (particularly if the comment is 'shit mate, don't bother'.)