Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado

By: Asad Iqbal

Title- Gourma-RharousDate- 1985

Title- Transporting bags of dirt in the Serra Pelada gold mineDate- 1986

Title- Dispute between Serra Pelada gold mine workers and military policeDate- 1986

Title- Going up the Serra Pelada mineDate- 1986

Title- Full view of the Serra Pelada gold mineDate- 1986

Title- The Serra Pelada gold mineDate- 1986

Title- Allana Coffee Curing WorksDate- January 2004

Title- Coffee farm, Ossoor EstatesDate- January 2004



Biography

•Born February 8, 1944 in Brazil

•Social documentary photographer & Photo-journalist

•Earned a master’s degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil

•Former Economist for the International Coffee Organization

•Started seriously taking photographs during his trips to Africa

•Took up a career in photography in 1973

Artistic Goals/ Photographic Interests/General Style

• Worked on news assignments and then switched to more documentary-type work

• Particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations

• UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

• In 2004 started taking pictures of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures

Analysis of One Key Artwork

Title- Firefighters at Work, Sabotaged Oil Wells in KuwaitDate- 1991

Content- There are two brave firefighters in this picture who have just finished closing a once leaking Kuwaiti oil well. They are both soaked with oil and look as though they have just completed an onerous task.

Composition- This picture is composed of two firefighters, one damaged oil well and a field full of oil

Technical Qualities- The aperture is low and therefore the picture has a lack of light.

Psychological Qualities- This picture will have a tremendous impact on the millions of people who supported an end to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It shows the suffering which the coalition forces had to encounter in their attempt to bring peace through the gulf war.

Emotional Qualities- People feel sad that this type of suffering is happening in the world. It will especially emotionally affect the citizens of the countries who supported the coalition forces, because it is their people who are suffering like this

Personal Response

What I personally liked so much about this photograph was that:• It conveys the message and true reality of what many brave Canadian

men and women had to go through to bring and end to the Gulf War• It shows the ugly side of war, and therefore it will increase peoples

opposition to future wars

What caught my imagination was that:• This pictures shows firefighters covered in oil and therefore made me

imagine the suffering which oil can cause do to man’s intrinsic greed

Conclusion/Summary

• Showed the true nature of many of the things which are happening in the world, such as coffee workers and miners in third world countries.

• Particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations

• Took pictures of landscapes and wildlife and of human communities living in their ancestral traditions and cultures

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