Sebastião Salgado's Serra Pelada Gold Mine Photographs on View at Sesc Avenida Paulista

The iconic photographic series by Sebastião Salgado documenting the Serra Pelada gold mine in Pará is on display at Sesc Avenida Paulista in São Paulo until November 3. Originally part of his Workers series conceived between 1986 and 1992, the exhibition Gold — Mina de Ouro Serra Pelada features 56 photographs, including previously unpublished works selected by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, who curated the show and organized its accompanying book. The images capture the labor of 50,000 people at what was known as the world's largest open-pit mine, often called the "human anthill." Daily attendance reaches hundreds, with a single-day record of 3,500 visitors, according to Lilian Sales, supervisor of the Visual Arts Center at Sesc Avenida Paulista. The exhibition presents a powerful visual record of human endeavor and industrial scale.