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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior

photographer

Sebastião Salgado was a renowned Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist known for his large-scale projects documenting human labor, environmental issues, and cultural traditions. He traveled to more than 120 countries, producing iconic works such as 'Other Americas', 'Sahel', 'Workers', 'Migrations', and 'Genesis'. His style is characterized by a dramatic use of black-and-white composition and lighting to capture the spiritual and political landscapes of rural communities and industrial sites. Beyond photography, Salgado was an environmentalist who co-founded Instituto Terra in Brazil to restore the Atlantic Forest. He served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and received numerous international honors, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Prince of Asturias Awards.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59]

Themes

  • social documentary
  • environmentalism
  • human labor
  • cultural traditions
  • migration

Books

  1. Sebastiao Salgado Other Americas 1794
    Other Americas
    photographer
    €53.00

Works by Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior

  • Other Americas 1986 · Pantheon Books · book · English ISBN 0394748743 Salgado's first major photobook.
  • Sahel 1986 · book
  • Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age 1993 · Phaidon · book ISBN 0-7148-3636-2
  • Migrations: Humanity in Transition 2000 · Aperture · book ISBN 978-0-89381-891-3
  • Genesis 2013 · Taschen · book ISBN 978-3-8365-3872-5

Exhibitions

  • 2013 Genesis Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto solo
  • 2013 Genesis Natural History Museum, London solo
  • 2013 Genesis Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris solo
  • 2014 Genesis National Museum of Singapore, Singapore solo
  • 2014 Genesis Fotografiska, Stockholm solo
  • 2019 Gold Fotografiska, Stockholm solo
  • 2021 Amazônia Philharmonie de Paris, Paris solo
  • 2025 Retrospective Fotografiska, Shanghai solo

Awards

  • 1982 W. Eugene Smith Grant W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
  • 1985 Oskar Barnack Award
  • 1989 Hasselblad Award Hasselblad Foundation
  • 1992 Foreign Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 Centenary Medal Royal Photographic Society
  • 1994 Grand Prix National French Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture (France)
  • 1998 Prince of Asturias Awards
  • 1988 King of Spain International Journalism Award
  • 2003 International Award Photographic Society of Japan
  • 2007 M2-El Mundo People's Choice Award PhotoEspaña
  • 2019 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
  • 2021 Crystal Award World Economic Forum
  • 2021 Praemium Imperiale
  • 2024 Outstanding Contribution to Photography Sony World Photography Awards

References

  1. Morre Sebastião Salgado, o maior fotógrafo brasileiro, que registrou dramas do mundo. 2025 link
  2. Youngs, Ian; Emma Lynch. Sebastião Salgado: Legendary Brazilian photographer dies at 81. 2025 link
  3. 1982: Recipients: Sebastião Salgado. 1982 link
  4. Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado. 2023 link
  5. Centenary Medal. 1993 link
  6. Academician's Sword for Sebastião Salgado. 2019 link
  7. Les photographes Salgado, Barbey et Gaumy elus à l'Académie des beaux-arts. 2016 link
  8. Netto, Andrei. Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: 'They say I was an aesthete of misery'. 2024 link
  9. Sebastião Salgado. 2019 link
  10. Biography: Sebastião Salgado. 2004 link
  11. Sebastiao Salgado – biography link
  12. Sebastião Salgado. 2015 link
  13. Sebastião Salgado. 2005 link
  14. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis. 2016 link
  15. Sebastião Salgado – Genesis link
  16. Jones, Jonathan. 'Paradise exists!': Sebastião Salgado's stunning voyage into Amazônia. 2021 link
  17. Johnson, Reed. Are Californians destroying the Amazon? A Sebastião Salgado photo exhibit raises hard questions. 2023 link
  18. Bradshaw, Peter. The Salt of the Earth review – colourful portrait of visionary photographer Sebastião Salgado. 2015 link
  19. Instituto Terra link
  20. Funk, McKenzie. Sebastião Salgado Has Seen the Forest, Now He's Seeing the Trees. 2015 link
  21. Carbon Footprint: Each and every TASCHEN Book plants a seed link
  22. Malleret, Constance. Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies at 81. 2025 link
  23. Armando, Antenore. 'Envelhecer não significa tirar fotos melhores'. 2024 link
  24. Ionova, Ana. Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81. 2025 link
  25. Sebastião Salgado link
  26. Sebastião Salgado. 1989 link
  27. Sebastião Salgado link
  28. Sebastião Salgado. 2021 link
  29. Sebastião Salgado – Laureates – Princess of Asturias Awards. 1998 link
  30. Sebastião Salgado, Premio de las Artes 1998. 2017 link
  31. Photographic Society of Japan Awards link
  32. La décima edición de PHotoEspaña finaliza con 600.000 visitantes. 2007 link
  33. Photographer Sebastiao Salgado wins German peace prize link
  34. 2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Winners revealed. 2024 link
  35. Siemaszko, Anna. Meet Sebastião Salgado, 2024's Outstanding Contribution to Photography Recipient. 2024 link
  36. Academician's Sword for Sebastião Salgado link
  37. Ordonnance Souveraine n° 7.202 du 18 novembre 2018 portant promotions ou nominations dans l'Ordre du Mérite Culturel. 2018 link
  38. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis. 2013 link
  39. Genesis. 2013 link
  40. Genesis. 2013 link
  41. Genesis. 2014 link
  42. Genesis. 2014 link
  43. Genesis. 2014 link
  44. Genesis. 2014 link
  45. Genesis. 2015 link
  46. Genesis. 2015 link
  47. Genesis. 2017 link
  48. Genesis. 2017 link
  49. Déclaration. 2018 link
  50. Gold. 2019 link
  51. Gold. 2020 link
  52. Amazônia. 2021 link
  53. Amazônia. 2021 link
  54. Amazônia. 2021 link
  55. Amazônia. 2022 link
  56. Amazônia. 2021 link
  57. Amazônia. 2022 link
  58. Amazônia. 2023 link
  59. Retrospective. 2025 link