Sebastião Salgado

Salgado was born on February 8, 1944, 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.{{cite web | title=Sebastião Salgado | website=International Center of Photography | date=2019-02-02 | url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado | access-date=2021-06-01}}

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

It was on his travels to Africa that he first started seriously taking photographs. 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 initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979, he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/sep/11/sebastiaosalgado.photography2|title=Biography: Sebastião Salgado|date=2004-09-11|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-10-01|issn=0261-3077}} His work resides in Paris.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicef.org/salgado/bio.htm|title=Sebastiao Salgado - biography|website=www.unicef.org|access-date=2017-10-01}}

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 1986 and 1989.{{Cite news|url=http://theartofphotography.tv/photographers/salgado/|title=Sebastião Salgado {{!}} The Art of Photography|date=2015-05-14|work=The Art of Photography|access-date=2017-10-01}} He has also been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001.{{cite web|date=29 April 2005|title=Sebastião Salgado|url=http://www.unicef.org/people/people_sebastiao_salgado.html|access-date=20 February 2012|publisher=UNICEF}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado-genesis|title=Sebastião Salgado: Genesis|date=2016-02-23|work=International Center of Photography|access-date=2017-10-01}}

In September and October 2007, 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.graphicine.com/sebastiao-salgado-genesis/|title=Sebastião Salgado – Genesis {{!}} Graphicine|website=www.graphicine.com|access-date=2017-10-01}}

Salgado has photographed the landscape and people of the Amazon rainforest (Amazónia) in Brazil.{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-25|title='Paradise exists!': Sebastião Salgado's stunning voyage into Amazônia|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/21/paradise-exists-sebastiao-salgados-stunning-voyage-into-amazonia|date=21 June 2021|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2023-04-02|title=Are Californians destroying the Amazon? A Sebastião Salgado exhibit raises hard questions|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-16/are-californians-destroying-the-amazon-a-sebastiao-salgado-photo-exhibit-raises-question|date=16 February 2023|website=Los Angeles Times}}

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".

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, and produced by Lélia Wanick Salgado.{{cite web|access-date=2022-04-29|title=The Salt of the Earth review – colourful portrait of visionary photographer Sebastião Salgado|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/the-salt-of-the-earth-review-sebastiao-salgado-wim-wenders|date=16 July 2015|website=The Guardian}}

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Together, Lélia and Sebastião have worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. In 1998, they succeeded in turning 17,000 acres into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The institute is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education.{{Cite web|url=http://www.youchange.org/p/instituto.terra.olu2d1kh/about/|title=Instituto Terra - Youchange|last=Youchange|website=Youchange|language=fr|access-date=2017-10-01}}{{cite web |last1=Funk |first1=McKenzie |date=October 2015 |title=Sebastião Salgado Has Seen the Forest, Now He's Seeing the Trees |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sebastiao-salgado-forest-trees-180956620/ |access-date=5 June 2023 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian}}

• 1982: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
• 1985: Oskar Barnack Award{{cite web | url = http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/#/en/winner/winner-2002-1979 | access-date = 2 May 2015 | publisher = Oskar Barnack Award | title = Sebastião Salgado}}
• 1989: Hasselblad Award, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden{{cite web | url = http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/1989-sebastiao-salgado/en/ | access-date = 6 March 2015 | publisher = Hasselblad Foundation | title = Sebastião Salgado}}
• 1992: Oskar Barnack Award{{cite web | url = http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/#/en/winner/winner-2002-1979 | access-date = 2 May 2015 | publisher = Leica Oskar Barnack Award | title = Sebastião Salgado}}
• 1992: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1993: Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society
• 1993: Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) from the Royal Photographic Society
• 1994: Grand Prix National French Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Culture (France)
• 1998: Prince of Asturias Awards, Arts category{{Cite news|url=http://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/1998-sebastiao-salgado.html?especifica=0|title=Sebastião Salgado - Laureates - Princess of Asturias Awards - The Princess of Asturias Foundation|last=Tecnologías|first=Developed with webControl CMS by Intermark|work=The Princess of Asturias Foundation|access-date=2017-10-01}}
• 1988: King of Spain International Journalism Award{{Cite news|url=https://vivirasturias.com/sebastiao-salgado-premio-de-las-artes-1998|title=Sebastião Salgado, Premio de las Artes 1998 {{!}} Turismo Asturias|last=SL|first=EuroWeb Media|date=2017-01-09|work=Turismo Asturias|access-date=2017-10-01|language=es-ES}}
• 2003: International Award from the Photographic Society of Japan{{cite web | url = http://www.psj.or.jp/english/sub2.html | access-date = 5 March 2015 | publisher = Photographic Society of Japan | title = Photographic Society of Japan Awards}}
• 2007: M2-El Mundo People's Choice Award for best exhibition a PhotoEspaña, for Africa{{Cite web|url=http://www.elpublicista.es/profesion/decima-edicion-photoespana-finaliza-600000-visitantes|title=La décima edición de PHotoEspaña finaliza con 600.000 visitantes|last=Publicista|first=El|website=www.elpublicista.es|date=20 July 2007|access-date=2017-10-01}}
• 2019: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/brazilian-photographer-sebastiao-salgado-wins-german-book-trade-peace-prize/a-49246029|title=Photographer Sebastiao Salgado wins German peace prize – DW – 10/18/2019|website=dw.com|accessdate=7 April 2023}}
• 2021: Crystal Award, World Economic Forum{{Cite news|url=https://www.praemiumimperiale.org/en/laureate-en/laureates-en/salgado-en|title=Sebastião Salgado - The Japan Art Association|website=The Japan Art Association|date=14 September 2021|language=pt}}
• 2021: Praemium Imperiale

• {{Flag|Brazil}}: Commander of the Order of Rio Branco (2004)[https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/sites/default/files/inline-files/cp_installation_salgado_aba.pdf Academie des Beux Arts]
• {{Flag|France}}: Knight of the Legion of Honour (2016)
• {{Flag|France}}: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014)
• {{Flag|Monaco}}: Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco) (2018){{cite web | url=https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/Journaux/2018/Journal-8409/Ordonnance-Souveraine-n-7.202-du-18-novembre-2018-portant-promotions-ou-nominations-dans-l-Ordre-du-Merite-Culturel | title=Ordonnance Souveraine n° 7.202 du 18 novembre 2018 portant promotions ou nominations dans l'Ordre du Mérite Culturel. / Journal 8409 / Année 2018 / Journaux / Accueil - Journal de Monaco }}

Image:Sebastiaosalgado2006.jpg his new book in 2006, during Lula's first presidency.]]

• An Uncertain Grace. Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin.
• {{cite book |last1=Salgado |first1=Sebastião |last2=Galeano |first2=Eduardo |last3=Ritchin |first3=Fred |last4=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |year=1990 |title=An uncertain grace |location=New York, N.Y |publisher=Aperture Foundation |isbn=978-0-89381-460-1 |oclc=22701623}}
• {{cite book |last1=Salgado |first1=Sebastião |last2=Galeano |first2=Eduardo |last3=Ritchin |first3=Fred |year=2004 |title=Sebastião Salgado: An uncertain grace |location=London |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=978-0-500-28489-6 |oclc=56457689}}
• Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age.
• {{cite book |author= |title=Sebastião Salgado: Workers : an archaeology of the industrial age |location=London |publisher=Phaidon |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-7148-2931-9 |oclc=471602337}}
• {{cite book |author= |title=Trabalho, uma arqueologia da era industrial |location=Portugal |publisher=Caminho |year=1993 |isbn=978-972-21-0834-8 |oclc=81101769}}
• {{cite book |last=Salgado |first=Sebastião |year=2009 |title=Trabalhadores : uma arqueologia da era industrial |location=São Paulo |publisher=Companhia das Letras |isbn=978-85-7164-588-2 |oclc=859535737 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Salgado |first1=Sebastião |last2=Buarque de Holanda |first2=Francisco |last3=Saramago |first3=José |last4=Landers |first4=Clifford |year=1997 |title=Terra : struggle of the landless |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=0-7148-3636-2 |oclc=610974180 }}
• {{cite book |last=Salgado |first=Sebastião |year=2000 |title=Migrations : humanity in transition |location=New York |publisher=Aperture |isbn=978-0-89381-891-3 |oclc=914864396 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Salgado |first1=Sebastião |last2=Wanick Salgado |first2=Lélia |year=2016 |title=Exodus |location=Cologne |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8365-6130-3 |oclc=959255065 }}
• The Children: Refugees and Migrants. New York, NY: Aperture, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-89381-894-4}}.
• Sahel: The End of the Road. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-520-24170-1}}.
• Africa. Cologne: Taschen, 2007. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-2343-1}}.
• Genesis. Cologne: Taschen, 2013. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-3872-5}}.
• 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 Coffee. New York: Abrams, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-4197-1921-9}}.
• Kuwait. A Desert on Fire. Cologne: Taschen, 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-6125-9}}.
• Gold. Cologne: Taschen, 2019. Edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-7508-9}}.
• Amazônia. Cologne: Taschen, 2021. Edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-8510-1}}.

• The Salt of the Earth (2014). Documentary about and with Salgado, directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.

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• Genesis, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2013;"[http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/sebastiao-salgado-genesis Sebastião Salgado: Genesis]", Royal Ontario Museum. Accessed 17 August 2014. Natural History Museum, London, 2013;{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22080740 | date = 10 April 2013 | accessdate = 13 August 2014 | first = Phil | last = Coomes | publisher = BBC News | title = Sebastiao Salgado's Genesis}} Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2013/14;"[http://www.parisphoto.com/agenda/sebastiao-salgado Sebastião Salgado, Genesis]", Paris Photo. Accessed 13 August 2014. National Museum of Singapore, 2014;"[http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/NMSPortal/faces/oracle/webcenter/portalapp/pagehierarchy/Page8.jspx?detContId=NHBSVRAPP61620000043158 Genesis]", National Museum of Singapore. Accessed 17 August 2014. Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2014; Fotografiska, Stockholm, 2014; Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy, 2014; International Center of Photography, New York City, 2014/15;{{Cite news|url=http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/sebastiao-salgado-genesis|title=Sebastião Salgado: Genesis|newspaper=International Center of Photography|date=23 February 2016}} CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2014/15;{{Cite web|url=http://prensa.lacaixa.es/obrasocial/exposicion-sebastiao-salgado-genesis-caixaforum-barcelona-esp__816-c-20993__.html|title=Sebastião Salgado. Génesis. CaixaForum Barcelona|website=prensa.lacaixa.es|language=es|access-date=2017-10-01}} Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014/15;{{Cite news|url=https://siteofspecialthings.com/2014/10/15/genesis-photography-exhibition-sebastiao-salgado/|title=Genesis Photography Exhibition – Sebastião Salgado|date=2014-10-15|work=Site of Special Things - Travel, Arts & Entertainment|access-date=2017-10-01}} Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015; CaixaForum Palma, Palma, Spain, 2015; Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin, 2015; Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2015; Kunstfoyer Munich, Germany, 2015/16; Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017;{{cite news|url=http://www.prague.eu/en/event/14443/sebastiao-salgado-genesis?back=1|title=Sebastião Salgado: Genesis|date=2 June 2017|publisher=Tourist website of Prague|accessdate=11 July 2017}} Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017{{Cite news|url=https://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/exhibition/salgado-genesis/|title=Sebastião Salgado {{!}} Genesis {{!}} Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam|work=Nederlands Fotomuseum|access-date=2017-07-29}}
• Déclaration, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 2018/19{{cite web|access-date=2019-06-13|title=Déclarations, exposition photo Sebastião Salgado|url=http://www.museedelhomme.fr/fr/visitez/agenda/exposition/declarations-exposition-photo-sebastiao-salgado|website=Musée de l'Homme}}
• Amazônia, Philharmonie de Paris, 2021;{{cite web|first1=Philip Andrew|last1=Churm|access-date=2021-07-25|title=Salgado's exhibition highlights Amazon forest destruction|url=https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/22/brazilian-photographer-salgado-highlights-amazon-forest-destruction|date=22 May 2021|website=euronews}} Science Museum, London, 2021/22;{{cite web|access-date=2023-04-02|title=Amazônia|url=https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/amazonia|website=Science and Industry Museum}} Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2022 MAXXI, Rome, 2021/22;{{cite web|access-date=2023-04-02|title=Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia - MAXXI|url=https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/sebastiao-salgado/|date=16 February 2021|website=www.maxxi.art}} Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, 2022/23;{{cite web|access-date=2023-04-02|title=Exposição "Amazônia", de Sebastião Salgado, estreia no Sesc Pompeia|url=https://www.sescsp.org.br/exposicao-amazonia-de-sebastiao-salgado-estreia-no-sesc-pompeia/|date=14 February 2022}} Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, 2021/22;{{cite web|last1=imoebius|access-date=2023-04-02|title="Fruturos - Tempos Amazônicos" exhibition in Rio de Janeiro - ATTO|url=https://www.attoproject.org/amazon-exhibition-in-rio-de-janeiro/|date=18 February 2022}} California Science Center, Los Angeles, 2022,{{cite web | title=In the lush Amazon, a photographer hopes to document life before it is too late | website=NPR | date=2 November 2022 | url=https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133560731/a-new-exhibition-features-photos-of-the-amazon-and-indigenous-leaders | access-date=7 April 2023}} Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, 2023/24.{{Cite web |title=Exposición fotográfica Amazonia de Sebastião Salgado en Madrid |url=https://amazoniasebastiaosalgado.com/expo/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=amazoniasebastiaosalgado.com |language=es-ES}}

• Pruemopterus salgadoi, an extinct species of eurypterid named after Salgado

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• [http://www.institutoterra.org/ Instituto Terra]
• [http://www.amazonasimages.com Amazonas Images] Photo agency formed by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick.
• [https://www.theguardian.com/arts/salgado/story/0,15021,1301926,00.html Biography at The Guardian]
• [http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography.html 'Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography' TED Talk] (17 minute video)
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/design/31fink.html "Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action,"] New York Times, 2009
• [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sumeet-grover/genesis-by-sebastiao-salgado-review_b_3302842.html "Genesis by Sebastião Salgado: Exhibition Review"], Huffington Post UK, 2013
• [https://llacademy.org/blog/sebastiao-salgado-photography/ "Timeless Tales by Sebastião Salgado"], Light and Life Academy - Photography College, 2001
• [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastiao-Salgado Sebastião Salgado] at Encyclopædia Britannica

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