Sebastiao Salgado
Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Sebastião
Ribeiro Salgado worked from 1968 to 1973 as an economist. It was in the early
70s, while on a business tour of Africa that he began photographing seriously.
Major exhibitions of his work include: Sahel: L’Homme en
Détresse (1986): Other Americans (1982); An Uncertain Grace (1990); Workers
(1993); and Exodus (2000).
He won more than 50 international awards, including the
Eugene Smith Award for Humanitarian Photography (USA, 1982); ICP’s
Photojournalist of the Year (USA, 1988); the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Award
for Life Achievement (Sweden, 1989); the Grand Prix National du Ministère de la
Culture (France, 1994); the Alfred Eisenstaedt Life Legend Award (USA, 1998);
and the Principe de Asturias Award for Arts (Spain, 1998).
A member of the Gamma Agency from 1975 to 1979, and of
Magnum Photos from 1979 to 1994, he now runs his own agency called Amazonas
Images.
He currently lives in Paris with his wife and two sons.
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