Sebastião Salgado

Born Feb 8, 1944

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in 1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.
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“In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”

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