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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