100 photos by Sebastião Salgado for press freedom

Available since early April, "100 photos for press freedom" is out.

For this new edition, and after prestigious names such as or , it's the no-less-prestigious who offers us 100 photos for press freedom.

Press freedom — a commitment

Reporters Without Borders presents 100 photos for press freedom — an album devoted to the work of one of the greatest contemporary photographers, a master of humanist black-and-white photography. Through his photographic writing, he bears witness to the paradoxes of progress and humankind's place on Earth. The portfolio immerses the reader in his epic body of work through a selection of images drawn from his most famous photographic projects. Previously unpublished texts shed light on this extraordinary photographer, and committed articles trace the current state of RSF's fight for press freedom.

For forty years, he has travelled the planet to report on its political, natural and economic upheavals and its great human movements. His gaze falls not only on a reality — that of a world in crisis and in development — but also exposes nature's wounds and humanity's nobility. Salgado's commitment goes beyond the photographic act: the reforestation of his parents' farm with his wife Lélia, and the Instituto Terra, testify to a life project wholly devoted to getting as close as possible to his subjects.

Before this exceptional album, no book had offered a retrospective of Sebastião Salgado's work and his various photographic projects from the 1970s to today. " " offers a unique selection of the finest images from an icon of contemporary photography, who captures with equal power the majesty of landscapes and the emotion of portraits.

The first retrospective devoted to the photographer

A best-selling author and well known to the general public, Sebastião Salgado — a record-breaking photographer (120,000 visitors for "Genesis" at the Maison européenne de la photographie in 2013, and 350,000 viewers for the Wim Wenders documentary dedicated to him) — is finally available in an affordably priced album, with an enlarged format and superior paper quality that showcase his spectacular images.

The portfolio is accompanied by previously unpublished texts by international figures who analyse and explain Salgado's work. Among them: Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO; Susan George, alter-globalisation activist; Alain Mingam, photographer and exhibition curator; Fred Ritchin, director of the ICP photography school; and Jean-Noël Jeanneney, historian and president of the Rencontres d'Arles.

100 photos for press freedom

In this album, the reader will find engaged content reflecting Reporters Without Borders' daily fight for freedom of information — including articles devoted to the crisis hitting the media in Burundi, the export policy of the Chinese censorship model, the disastrous bill aimed at reforming the media in Poland, and a focus on oligarchs and the threats that media buyouts pose to the independence of information. In an exclusive interview, Marty Baron, editor of the Washington Post, revisits the case of Jason Rezaian (a journalist released from prison on 20 January 2016) and shares his vision of the fight for independent journalism.