What is Sebastiao Salgado style of photography?

Sebastião Salgado’s straightforward photographs portray individuals living in desperate economic circumstances. Because he insists on presenting his pictures in series, rather than individually, and because each work’s point of view refuses to separate subject from context, Salgado achieves a difficult task.

What is Sebastiao Salgado known for?

About. Sebastião Salgado is a renowned documentary photographer and photojournalist with a deep love and respect for nature while also sensitive to the socio-economic conditions that impact human beings. Salgado has been the recipient of numerous awards and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001.

What language does Sebastiao Salgado speak?

Portuguese
Salgado, speaking in Portuguese, said in a telephone interview from his studio in Paris last month.

How did Sebastiao Salgado get into photography?

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.

What does Sebastiao Salgado shoot with?

Since switching to digital, he now shoots primarily with a Canon 1DS. As far as lenses go, he uses virtually the whole line of Canon L lenses. From prime 24mm to 300mm and zoom lenses covering the same length. Tri-X was his preferred film and today he still has Digital images processed to mimic a similar Tri-X look.

How did Sebastiao Salgado change the world?

Capturing the Hard Realities of the Modern World Taking up photography in his 30s, Salgado yearned to capture the hard realities of the modern world. Salgado created striking images that helped present veridical narratives of human life on Earth.

When was Sebastiao Salgado born?

February 8, 1944 (age 77 years)
Sebastião Salgado/Date of birth

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

Where does Sebastião Salgado live?

Paris
His work resides in Paris. Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis. The latter three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world.

How do I contact Sebastiao Salgado?

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What cameras did famous photographers use?

7 Famous Photographers and Their Cameras of Choice

• Gordon Parks. Known Cameras: Voigtlander Brilliant and Nikon F2.
• Diane Arbus. Known Cameras: 35mm Nikon, a twin-lens reflex Rolleiflex, and a twin-lens reflex Mamiya.
• Dorothea Lange. Known Cameras: Graflex Series DSLR.
• Sebastião Salgado. Known Cameras: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III.

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What influenced Sebastiao Salgado?

Sebastião Salgado was born on 8 February 1944 on a large cattle farm in Aimorés in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to a middle class family as the sixth of eight children. He has said that his childhood spent on the farm heavily influenced the expansiveness for which his photography is renowned.

What kind of photography does Sebastiao Salgado do?

Salgado’s photography communicates a subtle understanding of social and economic situations that is seldom available in other photographers’ representations of similar themes.

When did Sebastiao Salgado create the series Genesis?

Genesis is the third long-term series on global issues by world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado (born Brazil, 1944), following Workers (1993) and Migrations (2000).

What are the regions of Sebastiao Salgado’s exhibition?

The exhibition is divided into five geographical regions: Sanctuaries, Planet South, Africa, Amazonia and Pantanal, and Northern Spaces. Together, the images form a stunning mosaic of nature in unspoiled grandeur. Through these photographs, Salgado pays homage to a fragile planet he believes we must all protect.

Why was Sebastiao Salgado interested in the environment?

So many times I’ve photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet – to see the innocence.