Sebastião Salgado is a Documentary Photographer and Photo Journalist from Brazil. He was born on 08th February, 1944 in Aimores, Brazil. When we think of photographer Sebastião Salgado, what comes to mind are the words “humanitarian”, “humanist”, and “concerned photographer”.
Sebastião Salgado was a student of economics who completed his Ph.D. course work in Paris, France and then decided to abandon academia for photography. He chose the power of the image over the power of the word to show the plight of the poor, the disadvantaged, the despised, and the abandoned people of the world. His photographs directly confront injustice, inhumanity, and horror with boundless compassion and empathy.
Publications of Sebastião Salgado:
- An Uncertain Grace (1992)
- Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (1993), includes photos from 26 countries
- Terra: Struggle of the Landless
- Migrations (2000), includes photos from 39 countries
- The Children: Refugees and Migrants (2000)
- Sahel: The End of the Road (2004)
- Afrika (2007)
Videos of Sebastião Salgado
- Sebastiao Salgado: The Photographer as Activist
- This Week: Web Extra of Sebastiao Salgado
- Sabastiao and Lelia Salgado and the The Instituto Terra
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8 comments
wow.. Great Photographer.. TFS.
Inspiring… Thanks for sharing.
The Master.. Always an inspiration…
Very much inspiring..
From heartfelt compassion to a praise of life. Salgado went a turbulent path. He is a brilliant photographer and human being.
Amazing. I am deeply humbled.
I admire how to see around him, I was in his exposition the photographs he show 108 photographs ” workers” in Mexico City all the photographs I liked, was rare from me because I am going to see another exposition of photography I like two or three photographs only.
I saw you last work Genesis after hard crisis, Based in the bible. And his photographs was totally diferents, I like Landscapes in the Antartida beautiful photograph the Iceberg., I want to buy his book but was expensive for me.wonderful Book ten years he worked hard to make this book : Genesis.
Cordially
Federico Flores Moy from Mexico City.
Stunning images.