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Sebastiao Salgado The Spectre of Hope (2000) VHSto576p. Sebastiao Salgado, the economist who became a photographer. The two of us met in my kitchen to talk about Sebastiao Salgado's latest book, Migrations. He travelled for six years, visiting 43 countries. Everywhere he went he found people on the move, looking for somewhere, some way, to earn their living and feed their children. During those six years, Salgado, the economist who became a photographer, took pictures of the face of globalisation. Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe.

But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world. In a strange way, in all these pictures, one feels in Salgado's vision the word "yes" - not that he approves of what he sees, but that he says "yes" because it exists. The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. Following their questions, we could ask ourselves three things: 1. 2. 3. Sebastião Salgado, Part 1: The Spectre of Hope « John’s Bailiwick. Sebastião Salgado During the seemingly endless wars and humanitarian crises of recent decades, some “conflict” photographers have been accused of exploiting their helpless subjects, of purveying “poverty porn.”

Doubtless, there are NGOs and other aid organizations that have found photographs of starving children and displaced people to be useful tools in their fundraising. Much of this photographic genre is merely serviceable imagery, but some of it, including the work of James Nachtwey and Sebastião Salgado, is not only closely observed and deeply emotional, but also representative of the highest aesthetic level of photographic art. And there’s the rub! Critics like Susan Sontag and Ingrid Sischy have found it unseemly that the formal elements of good photography — composition, lens selection and light — should be exploited in photographing crises conditions, as if the photographer’s consideration of his own aesthetics were a kind of violation of his subject’s humanity. In Love With My Planet. In Love With My Planet - Slide Show. Sebastiao Salgado: The Photographer as Activist.

Sebastião Salgado. Sebastião Salgado (left) gives former Brazilian president Lula da Silva his new book. October 31, 2006. Sebastião Salgado (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. Biography[edit] He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press publications, have also been presented in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa (2007). Touring exhibitions of this work have been, and continue to be, presented throughout the world. Salgado has been awarded numerous major photographic prizes in recognition of his accomplishments. Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations and Genesis.

Publications[edit] Note: Dates refer to English-language editions. Sebastiao salgado photography. SEBASTIAO SALGADO AT PHOTOGRAPHY-NOW.NET.