Sebastiao Salgado PhotojournalistHuman Rights Activist I hope that

Sebastiao Salgado Photojournalist/Human Rights Activist "I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same. . . I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world. "

Biography ● ● Sebastiao Salgado a Brazilian photographer was born February 8 th, 1944 in a small town called Aimores, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Completing his secondary education in 1962, Salgado attended the University of Sao Paulo Earning a degree in economics, Salgado, married with two sons, went on to work for the International Coffee Organization based in London. Travelling often to Africa on business for the World Bank, he started taking pictures and it was during this period his career as a photojournalist began and his career as an economist ended.

● ● ● In 1973 Salgado had fully began his work as a photography. Initially freelancing, he joined Sygma and Gamma photo agencies then finally Magnum Photos. What followed was a series of books published with his work. Other Americas, that revealed poor Latin Americans published in 1986. Sahel: Man in Distress, 1986. He published Workers as well as held an exhibition on the subject which covered world wide manual labor.

Later came Migrations and the The Children focusing on people displaced documenting from 1993 -99, both books received international acclaim, published in 2000.

Behind Salgado's Work Salgado focused on: ● The displaced, migrants ● Violations of War and its effect on people ● Poverty ● All other injustices towards humanity

What is Sebastiao Salgado is about? ● ● ● Salgado seems to be preoccupied with depicting human struggles. They are about average ordinary everyday people. People who are suffering, dying and facing hardship daily. Sebastiao Salgado's work is about putting a face to a people dealing with situations or events that we would not normally think about have an appreciation for or fully understand. There is a sensibility about his work, sense of humanity and a personal responsibility.

Works by Sebastiao Salgado Terra Brazil's Endless Movement "I came to Brazil to photograph a story about the peasants fighting not to come to the cities, because this for me is one of the last resistance movements in the world. " -Sebastião Salgado

A few exerts of works by Sebastiao Salgado ● ● ● ● ● Landless worker Children of the North East Sugar Cane Workers Death as Way of life Drought and Famine Surviving hardships Serra Pelada Gold Miners Homeless in Sao Paulo Occupying The Giacometti Plantation The Killing of April 17

Landless worker. Ceará, 1983

Children of The Northeast Children dress as angels for an outdoor Mass in Juazeiro do Norte. (Ceará, 1982) The bones of various animals serve as toys for the young children of the sertão, which is the arid, barren land that characterizes much of the Brazilian Northeast (Ceará, 1983)

Sugar Cane Workers S & atildeo Paulo, 1987 Pernambuco, 1980 S & atildeo Paulo, 1987

Death as a Way of Life Ceará, 1980 Ceará, 1983 Piauí, 1983

Ceará, 1982) Ceará, 1982 Drought & Famine Ceará, 1983

Surviving Hardships At Fortaleza's large garbage dump, the poor search for anything from recyclable items that can be sold to edible refuse. Ceará, 1983

Serra Pelada Gold Miners Pará, 1990 Pará, 1986

Homeless in Sau Paulo

Occupying The Giacometti Plantation Paraná, 1996

The Killing of April 17 Nineteen were killed and 57 others were wounded on April 17, 1996, when troops opened fire on 1, 500 peasants who were protesting the government's delay in settling families on the lands of the Macacheira plantation. The peasants had occupied the land, near the hamlet of Eldorado, for several months. Pará, 1996

The Serra Pelada gold mine Brazil, 1986

Refugee camp at Benako, Tanzania, 1994. Sebastião Salgado The Refugees: Tanzania, 1994; Thousands of displaced Rwandans struggled to protect themselves from the elements at the Benako, Tanzania refugee camp

Church Gate Station. Bombay, India, 1995. Sebastiã Salgado The Swollen Cities: India, 1995; Every day nearly 3 million commuters crowd into Church Gate Station in Bombay, part of the railway system built by the British, but overwhelmed by India¹s population growth

Conclusion In the introduction to Migrations, he wrote, "More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship…. " --Sebastiao Salgado

Three Hundred Sixty Three Photographs Published 2000

Eighty Three Photographs Published 2000

Works Cited ● ● ● ● ● Terra Brazils Endless Movement, Sebastiao Salgado. The New York Times on the web. http: //www. nytimes. com/specials/salgado/home/ Special Report Sebastiao Salgado Genesis, In The Beginning. The Guardian. Simon Hattenstone http: //arts. guardian. co. uk/salgado/story/0, 15021, 1301926, 00. html. Sept. 2004 Masters of Photography. Sebastiao Salgado http: //masters-of-photography. com/S/salgado_articles 1. html University of California, Campus News. Epic Sebastião Salgado show at the Berkeley Art Museum http: //www. berkeley. edu/news/media/releases/2002/01/18_salgado. html#add. February 8 2002 Sebastiao Salgado http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Sebasti%C 3%A 3 o_Salgado http: //www. time. com/time/daily/special/photo/salgado/9. html Changing The World with Children photographs by Sebastiao Salgado http: //www. unicef. org/salgado/bio. htm The Digital Journalist Book Review by Nubar Alexanian http: //www. digitaljournalist. org/issue 0006/bookreview. htm. 1999