Sebastio Salgado

Sebastio Salgado (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived
social documentary photographer and photojournalist. as a potential path to humanitys rediscovery of itself in
nature.
He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic
projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press In September and October 2007, Salgado displayed his
publications and books. Touring exhibitions of this work photographs of coee workers from India, Guatemala,
have been presented throughout the world. Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London.
Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of
awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in the origins of the popular drink.
1982,[1] Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Together, Llia and Sebastio, have worked since the
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992[2] and the Royal 1990s on the restoration of a small part of the Atlantic
Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Forest in Brazil. In 1998, they succeeded in turning this
Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.[3] land into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra.
The Instituto is dedicated to a mission of reforestation,
conservation and environmental education.
1 Biography Salgado and his work are the focus of the lm The Salt
of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Sal-
Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimors, gados son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The lm won a spe-
in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a some- cial award at Cannes Film Festival[5] and was nominated
what itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an for the best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Academy
economist, earning a masters degree in economics from Awards.[6]
the University of So Paulo in Brazil. He began work as
an economist for the International Coee Organization,
often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, 2 Awards
when he rst started seriously taking photographs. He
chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched 1982: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene
to photography in 1973, working initially on news as- Smith Memorial Fund.[1]
signments before veering more towards documentary-
type work. Salgado initially worked with the photo 1985: Oskar Barnack Award.[7]
agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979,
he joined the international cooperative of photographers 1989: Hasselblad Award, Hasselblad Foundation,
Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and with his Gothenburg, Sweden.[8]
wife Llia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Ama-
1992: Oskar Barnack Award.[9]
zonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work. He is par-
ticularly noted for his social documentary photography of 1992: Foreign Honorary Member of the American
workers in less developed nations. They reside in Paris. Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
He has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1993: Centenary Medal from the Royal Photo-
2001.[4] graphic Society.[3]
Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects many
of which have been published as books: The Other Amer- 1993: Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) from the
icas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations and Genesis. The latter Royal Photographic Society.[3]
three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images 1994: Grand Prix National French Ministry of Cul-
each from all around the world. His most famous pictures ture.
are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada.
Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on Genesis, 1998: Prince of Asturias Awards, Arts category.
aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of na- 1998: King of Spain Journalism.
ture and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs
of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communi- 2003: International Award from the Photographic
ties that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral Society of Japan.[10]

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2 5 EXHIBITIONS

2007: M2-El Mundo Peoples Choice Award for Africa. Cologne: Taschen, 2007. ISBN 978-
best exhibition, PhotoEspaa, for Africa. 3836523431.
Genesis. Cologne: Taschen, 2013. ISBN 978-
3836538725.
3 Publications
From my Land to the Planet. Roma: Contrasto,
2014. ISBN 978-88-6965-537-1.
The Scent of a Dream: Travels in the World of Cof-
fee. New York: Abrams, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4197-
1921-9.

4 Filmography
The Salt of the Earth (2014). Documentary about
and including Salgado, directed by Wim Wenders
and his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.

5 Exhibitions
Salgado (left) gives former Brazilian president Lula da Silva his
new book in 2006.

An Uncertain Grace. Essays by Eduardo Galeano

and Fred Ritchin.
New York, NY: Aperture, 1990. ISBN
9780893814601.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. ISBN
9780500284896.
Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age.
Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age.
London: Phaidon, 1993. ISBN 978-
0714829319.
Trabalho: Uma Arqueologia da Era Indus-
trial. Portugal: Caminho, 1993. ISBN 978-
9722108348.
Trabalhadores: Uma Arqueologia da Era In-
dustrial. So Paulo, Brazil: Schwarcz, 1997.
ISBN 978-8571645882.
Terra: Struggle of the landless. London: Phaidon
Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7148-3636-2.
Migrations. New York, NY: Aperture, 2000. ISBN Salgados Genesis exhibition in 2014
978-0893818913.
Exodus. Cologne: Taschen, 2016. ISBN 978- Genesis, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada,
3-8365-6130-3. MaySeptember 2013[11] and toured, Natural His-
The Children: Refugees and Migrants. New York, tory Museum, London, AprilSeptember 2013;[12]
NY: Aperture, 2000. ISBN 978-0893818944. Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris,
September 2013January 2014;[13] National Mu-
Sahel: The End of the Road. Oakland, CA: seum of Singapore, AprilAugust 2014;[14] Palcio
University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 978- das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, MayAugust
0520241701. 2014; Fotograska, Stockholm, JuneSeptember
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2014; Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy, June 7 External links

November 2014; International Center of Photogra-
phy, New York, NY, 19 September 2014 11 Jan- Instituto Terra
uary 2015.[15] CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain, 9 October 2014 1 February 2015; Sejong Amazonas Images Photo agency formed by Salgado
Center, Seoul, Korea, 15 December 15 2014 20 and his wife Llia Wanick.
March 20 2015; Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portu-
Biography at The Guardian
gal, April July 2015; CaixaForum Palma, Palma,
Spain, 25 February 31 May 2015; Amerika Haus 'Sebastio Salgado: The silent drama of photogra-
Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 18 April 18 August phy' TED Talk (17 minute video)
2015; Power Station of Art Shanghai, China, April
June 2015; Kunstfoyer Munich, Germany, 09 Oc- Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action, New York
tober 2015 - 24 January 2016. Times, 2009

Genesis by Sebastio Salgado: Exhibition Review,

Hungton Post UK, 2013
6 References
[1] 1982: Recipients: Sebastio Salgado. W. Eugene Smith
Memorial Fund. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

[2] "Mr. Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado", American Academy of

Arts and Sciences. Accessed 13 August 2014.

[3] Royal Photographic Societys Centenary Award Accessed

13 August 2012

[4] Sebastio Salgado. UNICEF. 29 April 2005. Retrieved

20 February 2012.

[5] "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/ The Salt of the

Earth (2014) ]", IMDB. Accessed 11 may 2015.

[6] "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/awards?ref_=tt_
awd/" Accessed 6 may 2016.

[7] Sebastio Salgado. Oskar Barnack Award. Retrieved 2

May 2015.

[8] Sebastio Salgado. Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 6

March 2015.

[9] Sebastio Salgado. Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Re-

trieved 2 May 2015.

[10] Photographic Society of Japan Awards. Photographic

Society of Japan. Retrieved 5 March 2015.

[11] "Sebastio Salgado: Genesis", Royal Ontario Museum.

Accessed 17 August 2014.

[12] Coomes, Phil (10 April 2013). Sebastiao Salgados Gen-

esis. BBC News. Retrieved 13 August 2014.

[13] "Sebastio Salgado, Genesis", Paris Photo. Accessed 13

August 2014.

[14] "Genesis", National Museum of Singapore. Accessed 17

August 2014.

[15] http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/
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