Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born in Aimorés in Minas Gerais. Degree in economics in the capital of Espírito Santo, Vitória, post-graduated from the University of São Paulo, USP. As an economist, he worked in the Ministry of Economy in 1968.

Due to political persecution by the military dictatorship, he was forced to seek political exile in Paris in 1969. Thus, to complete 29 years, on a trip to Africa, taking a camera from his wife, Lelia Wanick Salgado, he had his final encounter with photography. Sebastian discovers the photographic work the best way to face the planetary events, especially in its economic aspects. By following this path that it turns into one of the leading and most revered today's photographers, photojournalism in the field. From the first moments he devoted himself to portray the excluded, those on the margins of society.

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