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Sebastião Salgado:Documentary Photographer/Photojournalist

Biography Born on February 8, 1944 in

Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Initially earned a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

Began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization.

Started developing his professional gusto for photography on his frequent World Bank Missions to Africa.

Biography

Abandoned his career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973.

Worked initially on news assignments with the Paris-based agency Gamma before veering more towards documentary-type work.

Joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos in 1979.

Biography Left Magnum in 1994 and formed

his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris to represent his work.

Is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations.

Works on long term, self-assigned projects many of which have been published as books, such as:

Sahel: From 1984 to the beginning of 1986

he worked, along with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, on an 18-month project documenting the African famine

Biography

Workers: A seven-year project completed in 1992,

featured images of laborers from 26 countries, including his acclaimed pictures of the Serra Pelada miners in Brazil.

Migrations: A six-year project spanning some 43

countries that was completed in 1999, focused on migrants, refuges and other displaced populations that are financially and often physically vulnerable.

Genesis: An eight-year project now more than half

completed, he is piecing together a visual story about the effects of modern development on the environment.

Honors

Sebastião Salgado is

also a UNICEF Goodwill

Ambassador and an

Honorary Member of the

Academy of Arts and

Sciences in the USA.

Honors

He has received numerous

prizes, including several

Honorary Doctorates and

many other accolades

for his photographic work.

Sebastião Salgado:Work Sample

Sebastião SalgadoFishermen in Mato Grosso, Brazil (2005)

Sebastião SalgadoThe Sand Sea in Namibia (2005)

Sebastião SalgadoA tea plantation worker in Rwanda (1991)

Sebastião SalgadoAn iceberg in Antarctica (2005)

Sebastião SalgadoA cattle camp in southern Sudan (2006)

Sebastião SalgadoThe Gisovo Tea Plantation in Rwanda (1991)

Sebastião SalgadoBoys fleeing from Southern Sudan to avoid being

forced to fight in the civil war, and heading for the refugee camps of Northern Kenya (1993)

Sebastião SalgadoHerdsmen driving their cattle into a camp

in southern Sudan (2006)

Sebastião Salgado“Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe” (2008)

Sebastião SalgadoFight Between a Serra Pelada Mineworker

and a Policeman, Pará, Brazil (1986)

Márcio Padilha:Photography Student

Concise Bio Born in Canoas, Rio Grande

do Sul, Brazil on August 31, 1970.

Educated in Brazil and in the United States.

Fluent in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Married to an American since 1995; no kids.

Has been to Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, United States and Uruguay as of 2009.

o Plans to visit, in his lifetime, Bhutan, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Israel, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam.

Works currently as a Court Interpreter and a Substitute Teacher.

Pursuing a BA in English with minors in ESL and Substance Abuse Counseling.

Arts Lover; Human Rights Enthusiast, Avid Reader.

Devout Tina Turner Fan.

Personal PhilosophyIt’s the documenting of the world’s realities;

the sharing of one’s perceptions;

the capturing of historicity in the making

that,

meandering through aesthetics,

compels me to believe in photography as

the prime socio-artistic medium.”

Márcio Padilha

Márcio Padilha:Work Sample

Márcio PadilhaMen at Work 2009

Márcio PadilhaVerissimilutude (2009)

Márcio PadilhaOne going about one’s way (2009)

Márcio PadilhaCompressed Societal Contempt (2009)

Márcio PadilhaAmazons (2009)

Márcio PadilhaEngaged Learning Process (2009)

Márcio PadilhaJustice in the Making (2009)

Márcio PadilhaEdifice I (2009)

Márcio PadilhaMedicine in Practice(2009)

Márcio PadilhaVolumes of Knowledge (2009)

Márcio PadilhaAmericana: Folk Dancing: A Dying Art? (2009)

Márcio PadilhaInfinity (2009)

Márcio PadilhaDecisions (2009)

Márcio PadilhaStill Life (2009)

Márcio PadilhaThe Milking Cycle I (2009)

Márcio PadilhaThe Milking Cycle II (2009)

Márcio PadilhaThe Milking Cycle III (2009)

Márcio PadilhaThe Milking Cycle IV (2009)

Márcio PadilhaEdifice II (2009)

Márcio PadilhaVariations on Enclosure (2009)

Márcio PadilhaPicture of Everyday Life (2009)

Sourceso Finkel, J. (2009, 05 27). The New

York Times: Art. Retrieved 10 21, 2009, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/design/31fink.html?_r=1

o Guardian News and Media Limited. (2004, 09 11). Biography: Sebastião Salgado | Art and Design. Retrieved 10 21, 2009, from The Guardian : http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/sep/11/sebastiaosalgado.photography2