'Terra'
- Sebastião Salgado Organised & curated by Lelia Wanick Salgado, this photographic exhibition presents 20 photos excerpted from the book 'Terra', published by Phaidon 1997, a series of images about the fate of the Brazilian peasants, their daily life, their struggle, the 'Landless Movement'. Highly respected in his field, Brazilian born Sebastião Salgado is perhaps the best-known documentary photographer in the world. Educated as an economist, he became interested in photography in 1970 while exiled in Paris and travelling on numerous occasions to Africa for the International Coffee Organization. He started working as a photojournalist in 1973 and eventually entered the prestigious photographic agency Magnum, publishing his first books in 1986. Appointed as UNICEF Special Representative in April 2001, Salgado has dedicated himself to chronicling the lives of the world's dispossessed, a task that has filled ten books and many exhibitions, and for which he has won numerous awards in Europe and the Americas. "I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same," says Salgado. "I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world." |