Sebastião Salgado
1944–2025 · Brazil / France
Connecting human destinies and landscapes.
The story
Trained in economics, Sebastião Salgado undertook extensive photographic projects around the world. Work, migration and human crises occupied a central place, followed by growing attention to ecosystems and their inhabitants. His books and exhibitions were developed with Lélia Wanick Salgado. The images’ formal power helped them circulate, but also prompted discussion about how suffering and inequality are represented.
Understanding the work
Connect spectacular compositions with captions and specific histories. The scale of a landscape or a crowd amplifies the narrative, but can also push individual experiences into the background.
Key works and series
Workers; Migrations / Exodes; Genesis; Amazônia.
Sources & further exploration
Works in collections.
1 recordsPhotographs to explore on museum and library websites, with titles, dates and processes. Each link opens the collection record and its image where one is available.
