Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior ( born February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, State of Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian photographer and photojournalist. Salgado is one of the socially engaged photographers in the tradition of social documentary photography.

Life

1963 Sebastião Salgado went to the University of São Paulo and studied economics until 1967 (MA). In the same year he married the pianist Lélia Deluiz Wanick. They engaged in the left movement against the military dictatorship and were friends of friends of the student leader and revolutionary Carlos Marighella. After emigrating to Paris in 1969, he wrote a dissertation in economic sciences, while his wife at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris took up studies in architecture.

First Salgado worked as an administrative officer for the International Coffee Organization ( ICO) in London. In his work trips to Africa, often jointly commissioned by the World Bank, he made his first photo shots with the Leica his wife. Photographing inspired him so much that he made ​​his own in 1973 as a photojournalist and then moved back to Paris.

From 1974 he worked for the Sygma photo agency. For several months he toured Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. Then he moved in 1975 to the photo agency Gamma and worked on many photo essays mostly about Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Salgado was inducted into the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1979. By chance, he was present when John Hinckley, Jr. on March 30, 1981 attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Salgado's photos of the attack had brought him money for his projects.

Salgado documented in self- selected global long-term projects over the years by black and white photographs of people's lives, especially at the lower end of society, especially those from the so-called Third World. After years, enormous picture books and impressive exhibitions.

Made famous is his photo report of 1986 on voluntary hard-working miners in the Brazilian Serra Pelada gold mine, seem their working conditions medieval. In 1994 he left Magnum Photos and marketed his photos now by his agency Amazonas Images. He photographs mostly with Leica cameras.

Since 2004, Salgado was working on the project " Genesis ," in which he documented yet unspoiled landscapes and their flora and fauna. After nine years working on this project, the Natural History Museum in London showed in 2013 a selection of 250 photographs.

Since 1967, he is married to Lélia Deluiz Wanick, they have two children, Juliano (born 1976 ) and Rodrigo ( b. 1981 ), who was born with Down's syndrome. His wife is out almost all of his books and designed a large part of the exhibitions. They live in Paris.

Social Commitment

Salgado campaigns against deforestation in Brazil and plans National Park Bulcão farm to plant two and a half million trees. He has developed the Instituto Terra founded, that feels the reforestation of deforested forests and nature conservation obliged.

Salgado also supports the campaign by the human rights organization Survival International to protect the Awá Indians in Brazil, which are threatened by illegal logging in their area.

Works

  • Workers - workers. The archeology of the industrial age. Publisher Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1993 picture book
  • Terra. Publisher Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1997 picture book
  • Migrants. Publisher Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2000, picture book
  • Children of migration. Publisher Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2000, picture book
  • The End of Polio. Documentation of UNICEF's campaign to fight polio
  • Africa. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-5621-5, picture book
  • Genesis. Trade Edition. Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8365-4259-3, picture book
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