Sebastião Salgado Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Sebastião Salgado is a well-known photographer who worked only in black in white. Here are some quick facts about him.

• Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• 6th Child in Family of 8.

• Originally an economist.

• Earned his master’s degree in economics from Sao Paulo University in Brazil

• Early photos of Sahel Desert.

• Covered news events originally.

• Moved on to documentaries

• His documentaries were always in black and white

• First exhibition called Other Americas. Designed to show counter-culture in rural Americas.

• Later exhibition called Workers. Tells of the demise of large-scale manual labor.

• Terra: Struggle For the Landless about poor people’s struggle to get land in Brazil.

• A later piece was Migrations and the Children

• His work was designed to affect your emotions.

It has won almost all major photography awards.

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