Sebastião Salgado

Grasiele Santos

CBPF, Oct 27th 2010.

Outline

Brief biography

Main works

Portfolio

Conclusions & references

Brief biography

Born in Brazil in 1944, in the state of Minas Gerais, Sebastião Salgado studied economics in São Paulo and Paris and worked in Brazil and England. While traveling as an economist to Africa, he began photographing the people he encountered, using his wife's

camera. In 1973 he left his work to become a photographer.

He is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United

States.With his wife, Sebastião have worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a small part of the Atlantic Forest in

Brazil. In 1998 they succeeded in turning this land into a nature

reserve and created the Instituto Terra.

Main works

Note: Dates refer to English-language editions.

* An Uncertain Grace (1992)

* Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (1993), includes

photos from 26 countries

* Terra (1997)

* Migrations (2000), includes photos from 39 countries

* The Children: Refugees and Migrants (2000)

* Sahel: The End of the Road (2004)

* Afrika (2007)

* Genesis (in preparation)

Conclusion

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart.

It's a way of life." Henri-Cartier Bresson

“The planet remains divided, the first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of

need.”Salgado

References

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastião_Salgado

www.amazonasimages.com

www.institutoterra.org