How old is Sebastiao Salgado?
How old is Sebastião Salgado?
77 years (February 8, 1944)
Sebastião Salgado/Age
Where is Sebastiao Salgado from?
Aimorés, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sebastião Salgado/Place of birth
Where does Sebastiao Salgado live now?
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.
What is Sebastiao Salgado known for?
Sebastião Salgado, in full Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado, (born February 8, 1944, Aimorés, Brazil), Brazilian photojournalist whose work powerfully expresses the suffering of the homeless and downtrodden. He became a freelance photojournalist in 1973.
What does Sebastiao Salgado photograph?
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.
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.
When did Sebastiao Salgado work?
Initially an economist with the World Bank, Salgado began his photographic career in Paris in 1973. He worked with the Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos agencies until 1994, when he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado founded Amazonas Images, dedicated exclusively to his work.
What motivates Sebastiao Salgado as a photographer?
But he insists he is not motivated by “activism”. Instead, what he stresses is the sheer fun of what he does. Photography has taken him all over the world, has been his passport to see astonishing things, people, places.
What is Salgado?
Galician and Portuguese: nickname for a witty person, from salgado ‘salty’, figuratively ‘witty’, ‘piquant’ (from Late Latin salicatus, past participle of salicare ‘to give salt to’).
Why did Sebastiao Salgado get into photography?
His work at the International Coffee Organization in London required him to make frequent trips to Africa, and his desire to document these experiences sparked his interest in photography; by 1974 he was freelancing as a photojournalist for the Sygma agency in Paris.
What is Sebastiao Salgado style of photography?
What camera does Salgado use?
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.
