Sebastião Salgado

<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>GOLD, SERRA PELADA, BRAZIL: Carriers must keep their hands as free as possible to help balance on the dangerous ladders in the struggle from the mine bottom to the top. Serra Pelada, State of Pará, Brazil, 1986.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>SERRA PELADA, BRAZIL</i>, 1986.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>GOLD, SERRA PELADA, BRAZIL: The gold mine. Serra Pelada, state of Pará, Brazil, 1986.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>GOLD, SERRA PELADA, BRAZIL: The mines are controlled by state civil guardsmen, known to make lower wages than the carriers; often rivalries occur. Uniformed guards are proud of their status but don't want to be considered lower than mine workers because of their wages. Sometimes fighting and killings result: a guard who had shot a worker was stoned to death by carriers during such a battle. Serra Pelada, State of Pará, Brazil, 1986.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>GOLD, SERRA PELADA, BRAZIL: The gold mine. Serra Pelada, state of Pará, Brazil, 1986.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>TEA, RWANDA: Tea picking at a plantation near Cyangugu, which grows high-quality tea. Rwanda, 1991.</p>
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<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>COAL, INDIA: Going down the elevator into the Mudidih mine - an old mine once worked by the British. Dhanbad, Bihar state, India, 1989.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>SHIPYARDS: POLAND AND FRANCE: The flanks of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle were built in the workshop and transferred by cranes to dry dock for assembling in the ship's hull. Specially constructed transportation devices must then be cut away. Brest, France, 1990.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>COAL, INDIA: Workers (women and men) under contract to truck owners load trucks with coal. A dirty and exhausting job, it is badly remunerated with a maximum daily salary of only twenty-two rupees (U.S. $1.30). Dhanbad, Bihar State, India, 1989.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE DINKA OF SOUTHERN SUDAN: Cattle camp of Amak at the end of the day, when the herd has returned to the camp for the night. This is the most active time at the camp. Several piles of burning cow pats can be seen here; the smoke keeps the insects away from the camp. Southern Sudan, February-March 2006.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE DINKA OF SOUTHERN SUDAN: Cattle camp of Kei. The Dinka choose the best bulls for mating and identify them by giving a distinct shape to the animals' horns as they grow. Southern Sudan, February-March 2006.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Refugees at the Korem Camp, Ethiopia</i>, 1984.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Children's Ward in the Korem Refugee Camp [mother and child]</i>, 1984.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>The first day of installation of the camp of Benako for the Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu Refugees, Tanzania</i>, 1994.</p>
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<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE DINKA OF SOUTHERN SUDAN: Cattle camp at Kei. The Dinka and their animals are covered with ash from burned cow dung to protect the skin against insects and parasites. Southern Sudan, February-March 2006.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Dinka child, Southern Sudan</i>, 2006.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Guatemala</i>, 1978.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Fishing in the Piulaga Laguna during the Kuarup ceremony of the Waura Group, Upper Xingu Basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil</i>, 2005.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE NENETS: At the end of the day, after leading the herd north across the Yamal Peninsula towards the Kara Sea on the Arctic Ocean, the Nenets set up their tent, or </i>tchoum<i>. They first put all their belongings in a circle on the ground, around which they place wooden supports covered with reindeer skins. North of Ob River, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, March-April 2011.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE NENETS: North of the Ob River, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) inside the Yamal Peninsula, fierce winds keep even daytime temperatures low. When the weather is particularly hostile, the Nenets and their reindeer may spend several days in the same place, doing repair work on sledges and reindeer skins to keep busy. The deeper they move into the Arctic Circle, the less vegetation is to be found. Inside the Arctic Circle, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, March-April 2011.</
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE NENETS: The larger sledges are driven by the women, with as many as 10 sledges forming a long caravan. The men drive smaller sledges since they go faster: it is the men's job to regroup the herd around the camp each morning and, often with the help of dogs, to keep the reindeer moving in a single direction throughout the day.Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, March-April 2011.</i></p>
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<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>The Eastern Part of Brooks Range, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska</i>, 2009.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>The Eastern Part of Brooks Range, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska</i>, 2009.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>Marine iguana, Galápagos, Ecuador</i>, 2004.</p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>The Grand Canyon viewed from National Forest, Arizona. The big mesa visible on the far side of the canyon is in Navajo territory. This photograph was taken during a localized snowstorm. Utah, USA, April-June 2010.</i></p>
<p><b>Sebastião Salgado</b>, <i>THE ALTO XUNGU INDIANS: After three days in a canoe on the Akakan River and then the Carraro River, we finally reach the Churún River. Mirroring the forest and the Auyantepui in the background, its water is black because tree sap seeps through the sandy soil of the region. Venezuela, November-December 2006.</i></p>
Brazilian
1944

Born in Brazil, studied economics, began his photo career in 1973 in Paris, where he lives when not traveling. Known for epic photo projects covering the globe. There's everyone else, and then there's Salgado.


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