Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado is a Paris based photojournalist, who has documented the lives of Latin American peasants, diamond mine workers in Brazil, and famine in Africa.
His most recent books Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children: Refugees and Migrants illuminate the plight of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons all over the world. His previous books include An Uncertain Grace and Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age.
Sebastiao Salgado elsewhere on Lannan.org
Sebastiao Salgado, (Events)Eduardo Galeano and Sebastião Salgado with Amy Goodman, (Events)
Artworks
Mosque of Istiqlal. Jakarta, 1996
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
A victim of war on Jade Maiwan Avenue. Kabul. Afghanistan, 1996
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
The takeover by landless peasants of the Giacometti plantation. State of Parana, Brazil, 1996
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1995
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Along the Bund, by the Huangpu River. Shanghai, China, 1998
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Church Gate Station. Bombay, India, 1995
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
A peasant fighter of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Cotabato, Mindanao Island, the Philippines
A peasant fighter of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Cotabato, Mindanao Island, the Philippines, 1999
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Rwandan refugee camp of Benako, Tanzania, 1994
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Candidates to illegal migration by the steel barrier built by the U.S.A. U.S.-Mexican border.
Candidates to illegal migration by the steel barrier built by the U.S.A.
U.S.-Mexican border. Tijuana, Mexico, 1997
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph
Refugees from the Bosnian enclave of Bihac squat the destroyed houses of Turanj. Krajina, Croatian
Refugees from the Bosnian enclave of Bihac squat the destroyed houses of Turanj. Krajina, Croatian territory occupied by the Serbs, 1994
Size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Medium: Black and white photograph