Sebastião Salgado was born in 1944, in Aimores Brazil (Wikipedia.) He is a social documentary photographer and well-known photojournalist (Wikipedia.) Salgado is famous for his many pictures, but particularly well known for his book of pictures published in 2000, called "Migrations: Humanity In Transition." For this book Salgado traveled to 39 different countries and photographed the often-unseen horrors of migrations forced upon millions of people worldwide (Wikipedia.) Salgado was himself a migrant in his childhood, and so he feels more than just sympathy for the people he photographs, he feels empathy, because he was once in their very place. Moving from town to town, and eventually from Brazil to France to escape political instability, Salgado says of his photographs; “This story that I'm photographing is my story also. I am a migrant, too.” (qtd. In PDN and Kodak)
Salgado’s purpose in taking and publishing his pictures was to inform the world of what revulsion much of our world is constantly suffering, in hopes that we may unite and provide relief those who need it. “I want to show the immigrants' dignity, to show their courage and their entrepreneurial spirit and to demonstrate how they enrich us all with their individual differences." -Sebastião Salgado. (qtd. In PDN and Kodak)
the complete works of Sebastião Salgado include:
- 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)
- Africa (2007)
Research On Salgado Works cited-
"Sebastião Salgado." wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2010.
Photo District News. "Kodak Professional Present: Legends Online. Migrations." PDN and Kodak (1999) n.pag. Web. 13 Jan. 2010
I really enjoy your photograph before about traveling and the monks. I also love to travel and have been many places around the world. I also loved the picture you chose to use to introduce Sebastiao Salgado. It amazes me that these people have the energy, after having such lack of food and nutrition, to keep walking down the roads of Africa with most of their things just carried on top their heads.The quote at the end kind of represented how I have felt about the topic because I also hope to be able to show the dignity of these people. I also thought it was a great idea to list the books that he has written so others can look at them as well.
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