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Sebastião Salgado (1944) has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of this work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.
Salgado was born in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work.
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.
Between 2004 and 2011, 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.
Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film won a special award at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Academy Awards.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Sebastião Salgado or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
Sebastião Salgado (1944) has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of this work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.
Salgado was born in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work.
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.
Between 2004 and 2011, 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.
Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film won a special award at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Academy Awards.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Sebastião Salgado or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Sebastião Salgado |
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| A settlement of landless peasants in Rio Bonita Do Iguacu. Parana State, Brazil. 1996 |
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| Child Worker at Tea Plantation |
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| Children school |
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| Displaced children in Mopeia who have lost contact with their families. Zambeze Province, Mozambique. 1994 |
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| Heroes |
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| The Sakhi camp for refugees from Tajikistan. Northern Afghanistan. 1996 |
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| The Shamak camp for displaced population at Pul-i-Kumri. Northern Afghanistan. 1996 |
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| On July 31st 1983 Iraqi soldiers took away all the men of several villages, they were never seen again. Today the daughters and widows still wait for their return or a confirmation of their death. Beharke, Iraqi Kurdistan. 1997 |
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| Ashaninka, State of Acre, Brazil 2016 |
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| Ashaninka, State of Acre, Brazil 2016 |
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| Children playing with animals bones, Brazil. 1983 |
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| The salt of the earth |
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| Three Communion Girls, Brazil 1981 |
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| Landless peasants, Giacometti plantation, State of Paraná, Brazil. 1996 |
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| Refugees from the Bihac pocket waiting for delivery of the letters. 1994 |
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| Gypsies from Kosovo in the San Foca refugee center. Italy. 1998 |
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| Zaire |
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| Refugees from Kabul in the Shamak camp in Pul-i-Kumri. Afghanistan |
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| A refugee camp in Benako, Tanzania swells with Rwandan refugees |
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| Refugees from the Bosnian enclave of Bihac at the camp of Turanj. The town is heavily mined, and people, mostly children, got injured by exploding land mines. Turanj-Krajina 1994 |
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| Camp of "Granja Agricola" |
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| Displaced Indians camp in Polho. State of Chiapas, Mexico. |
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| Rwandan refugee camp of Benako, Tanzania. |
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| Brazil, 1981 |
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| A returning Mozambican refugee carries her bedding on her head and a baby on her back as she makes her way across the half destroyed Dona Ana Bridge over the Zambeze River. Mutarara, Mozambique |
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| Coal mining, Dhanbad Bihar, India |
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| Korem, Ethiopia |
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| Blind woman, Mali |
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| Mata tea plantation, Rwanda |
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| The coffins of the nineteen peasants murdered on April 17, 1996 in Eldorado dos Carajas, are taken by trucks for burials. State of Para, Brazil |
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| Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India 1995 |
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| Pagarau cattle camp, 2006 |
Some of the photos above are not by Salgado -- they are by Arthur Tress, William Klein, and Shirley Baker. Your blog is good, so please review this page of photographs and remove the ones that don't belong here.
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