John Berger X Sebastião Salgado / The Spectre of Hope (2002)

I, I am here. I exit.

But also something else happening. Because they are looking at Sebastião, and they are looking at the camera, and they know that they are looking at the world.

So they address a question: what are you? You, out there in the world? Or, is there anything else out there?

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It is not pleasant to die, lord, if nothing is left in life.
And in death nothing is possible, except on the bases of what is left in life.

It is not pleasant to die, lord, if nothing is left in life.
And in death nothing is possible, except on the bases of what one could have left in life.