Anthropological Quarterly, January 1st, 2006
Sebastião Salgado, Sahel: The End of the Road. Berkeley: University of California Press, October 2004.
Whichever way you approach it, this is a deeply affecting book. You may well feel a sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach, like heavy turbulence. You may find yourself taking unexpectedly long daydreams into nowhere as the immediate concerns of your day suddenly take on a desperate triviality. You may catch yourself giving out deep, long, heavy breaths, as you slowly summon the will, not to move on to another page, but to leave the agony of the one you are with.
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