Final reckoning: Sebastião Salgado's posthumous photographic retrospective opens in Germany

A close-up, black-and-white photograph shows three coal miners with dark, coal-dust covered faces and head wraps, with the man in the foreground looking directly at the camera while holding a shovel over his shoulder.

Just five months after his death in Paris, Sebastião Salgado's extraordinary vision is returning to Germany. Opening on October 25 at Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, Sebastião Salgado. A Retrospective offers a rare opportunity to experience the full scope of a career that redefined documentary photography.

The exhibition brings together works from the Brazilian photographer's monumental series Genesis, Workers, Gold, Exodus and Other Americas. As such, they span decades of dedication to documenting both humanity's impact on the planet and the enduring beauty of the natural world.