Exercise: Works of Salgado.

Exercise: Works of Salgado.

Sebastião Salgado, was born 08.02.1944, in Aimorés, Brazil, the only son of a cattle rancher.  He studied economics at Sao Paulo obtaining a masters degree.  It was during the period 1968 to 1969, while working for the Ministry of Finance, that he joined an anti Government movement which led to him being exiled as a political radical.  He took up residence, with his wife, in France and continued his studies in Paris.  It was during on a visit to Rwanda whilst working for the International Coffee Organisation that he took up the camera.  He became a freelance photographer in 1973.  He was a member of Magnum from 1979 until 1994 when he left to form Amazonas Images, which he ran with with his wife Lelia Wanick.

He specialised in photographing the worlds victims, be they victims of draught, famine, war, greed, or just bad governance.  He returned to South America in 1977 and during the following seven years put together the  49 images that were published in Other Americas.  Of this period he said, “I decided to dive into the most concrete of the unreality of these Latin Americas, so mysterious and suffering, so heroic and noble.’'  The book was not published until 1986, the same year as his second book, Sahel: Man in Distress. 

Sahel: Man in Distress was a record of the 1 million inhabitants of the Sahel region of Central Africa who died during the famine which ran from 1984 through to 1986. 

Terra: Struggle of the Landless is a combination of pictures from his books, An Uncertain Grace and Workers and additional new images illustrating the plight of landless peasants in his native Brazil.   Another campaign he avidly believes in is the protection of native forest in Brazil.  When in 1998 he inherited his fathers lands he set about returning them to natural forest.   This is now the National Park Instituto Terra.  

References.

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastiao-Salgado#ref742770
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http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/05/sebastiao-salgado-i-had-travelled-to-the-dawn-of-time/
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www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/magazine/.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/bib/971102.rv125102.html
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