Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the
state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied
economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer
in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and
Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed
Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work.
He has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic
projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press
publications, have also been presented in books such as
Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l'homme en détresse (1986),
Sahel: el fin del camino (1988),
Workers (1993), Terra (1997),
Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa (2007).
Touring exhibitions of this work have been, and continue to be,
presented throughout the world.
Sebastião Salgado has been awarded numerous major photographic
prizes in recognition of his accomplishments. He is a UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador, and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts
and Sciences in the United States.
In 2004, Sebastião Salgado began a project namedGenesis, 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.
Together, Lélia and Sebastião have worked since the 1990's 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. The Instituto is dedicated to a
mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education.
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