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Brazilian photographer

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Ribeiro and the second or paternal family name is Salgado.

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, )^[2] is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

He has traveled in over countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.

Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in ,^[3] Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in ^[4] and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in ^[5] He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April ^[6][7]

Early life and education

Salgado was born on February 8, ,^[2] in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado trained as an economist, earning a BA degree from UFES, a master's degree from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, and a PhD from University of Paris.^[8]

He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank.

Photography

It was on his travels to Africa that he first started seriously taking photographs.

Sebastiao salgado biography: Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, ) [2] is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books.

He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in , working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in , he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work.

He is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations.^[9] His work resides in Paris.^[10]

Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis.

The latter three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada, taken between and ^[11] He has also been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since ^[12]

Between and , Salgado worked on Genesis, aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity.

It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity's rediscovery of itself in nature.^[13]

In September and October , Salgado displayed his photographs of coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London.

The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink.^[14]

Salgado has photographed the landscape and people of the Amazon rainforest (Amazónia) in Brazil.^[15][16]

Salgado's work has been described by Andrei Netto of The Guardian as an "instantly recognisable combination of black-and-white composition and dramatic lighting".^[2]

Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and produced by Lélia Wanick Salgado.^[17]

Environmentalism

Together, Lélia and Sebastião have worked since the s on the restoration of a part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil.

In , they succeeded in turning 17, acres into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The institute is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education.^[18][19]

Awards

Honours

Publications

• An Uncertain Grace. Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin.
  • Salgado, Sebastião; Galeano, Eduardo; Ritchin, Fred; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (). An uncertain grace. New York, N.Y: Aperture Foundation. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  • Salgado, Sebastião; Galeano, Eduardo; Ritchin, Fred (). Sebastião Salgado: An uncertain grace. London: Thames & Hudson.

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• Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age.
• Salgado, Sebastião; Buarque de Holanda, Francisco; Saramago, José; Landers, Clifford (). Terra&#;: struggle of the landless. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
• Salgado, Sebastião ().

  Migrations&#;: humanity in transition. New York: Aperture. ISBN&#;.

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• The Children: Refugees and Migrants. New York, NY: Aperture, ISBN&#;
• Sahel: The End of the Road. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, ISBN&#;
• Africa. Cologne: Taschen, ISBN&#;
• Genesis. Cologne: Taschen, ISBN&#;
• From my Land to the Planet. Roma: Contrasto, ISBN&#;
• The Scent of a Dream: Travels in the World of Coffee. New York: Abrams, ISBN&#;
• Kuwait.

  A Desert on Fire. Cologne: Taschen, ISBN&#;

• Gold. Cologne: Taschen, Edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado. ISBN&#;
• Amazônia. Cologne: Taschen, Edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado. ISBN&#;^[15]

Filmography

Exhibitions

• Genesis,Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, ;^[31]Natural History Museum, London, ;^[32]Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, /14;^[33]National Museum of Singapore, ;^[34]Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ; Fotografiska, Stockholm, ; Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy, ; International Center of Photography, New York City, /15;^[35]CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, /15;^[36]Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea, /15;^[37]Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal, ; CaixaForum Palma, Palma, Spain, ; Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin, ; Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, ; Kunstfoyer Munich, Germany, /16; Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic, ;^[38]Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ^[39][37]
• Déclaration, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, /19^[40]
• Amazônia, Philharmonie de Paris, ;^[41]Science Museum, London, /22;^[42]Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, ^[42]MAXXI, Rome, /22;^[43]Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, /23;^[44]Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, /22;^[45]California Science Center, Los Angeles, ,^[46]Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, /^[47]

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