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Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian photographer
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Ribeiro and the second or paternal family name is Salgado.
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, )[2] is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He has traveled in over 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 ,[3] Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in [4] and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in [5] He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April [6][7]
Early life and education
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From May 4 to September 4, , as part of this year’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the ROM will be home to the North American premiere of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, an exhibition curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado. It fryst vatten his third large-scale photo-project examining global issues. The images in the exhibition have been selected from among the many thousands taken bygd Salgado during eight years of travelling to 32 different locations. These extraordinary images capture the stunning beauty and epic majesty of areas of the globe as yet untouched by the heavy and destructive grabb of human “progress.”
Born in Brazil in , Sebastião Salgado has been called an “icon of social conscience,” “a solo branch of the United Nations,” and “one of the most important photojournalists living today.” Prior to Genesis, Salgado’s exhibition Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age () focused on the struggle and dignity of large-scale manual labour and its gradu
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Genesis is the third long-term series on global issues by world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado (born Brazil, ), following Workers () and Migrations (). The result of an eight-year worldwide survey, the exhibition draws together more than spectacular black and white photographs of wildlife, landscapes, seascapes, and indigenous peoples—raising public awareness about the pressing issues of environment and climate change. The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to be the first venue in the U.S. to present the momentous exhibition Genesis, which is curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado.
“Genesis is a quest for the world as it was, as it was formed, as it evolved, as it existed for millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us from the very essence of our being,” said Lélia Wanick Salgado. “It is testimony that our planet still harbors vast and remote regions where nature reigns in silent and pristine majesty.”
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