Sebastião Salgado Biography

Sebastião Salgado Biography

A Himba Woman, Kaokoland, Namibia, 2005

Black and white Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado displays the sorrow of the homeless and the oppressed. He also shoots astonishing nature and landscapes. His most famous work “Sea Lions at Puerto Egas in James Bay, The Galapagos from Genesis” was shot in 2010. This piece is displayed in the Borusan Contemporary in Turkey.

Sea Lions at Puerto Egas in James Bay, The Galapagos from Genesis - 2010

Some background information he was born in 1944 in Aimorés, Brazil. He was the son of a cattle rancher and was expected to become a lawyer. What he ended up doing is studying economics at São Paulo University and graduated with his master’s in 1968. While he worked as an economist for the Ministry of Finance (1968-69) he was involved with a popular movement against Brazil’s military and was exiled. He and his wife fled to France and he continued his studies at the University of Paris. In the year 1971, he had an assignment in Rwanda as an economist and with this assignment, he took his first photographs and decided to self teach the craft and later freelanced photojournalism in 1973.

Southern Right Whale Tail, Valdés Peninsula, Argentina, 2004

Crossing the Ob River, Siberia, Russia, 2011

Giant Tortoise, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, 2004

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