Sebastiao Salgado
Made vast, luminous black-and-white photo-essays on labour, migration and nature that redefined documentary photography's scale and ambition.
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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
An economist who turned his lens on gold mines and refugees, he shot suffering with such thunderous beauty that critics argued whether it was too gorgeous to be true.
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Made vast, luminous black-and-white photo-essays on labour, migration and nature that redefined documentary photography's scale and ambition.
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