11. Sebastião Salgado

Salgado is another documentary photographer whose work I've found very useful to look at, especially as Salgado focused on workers from various industries around the world. Salgado was born in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil on February 8th, 1944. He began studying economics, and didn't begin his career as a professional photographer until 1973, when he moved to Paris, where he worked with the Sygma, Gamma and Magnum agencies. He worked with these agencies until 1994, until he and Lelia Wanick formed 'Amazonas Images', which was created especially for Salgado's work.

Salgado's dedication to his projects has taken him to over 100 countries, most of these finding themselves in some of his books including; 'Other Americas' (1986), 'Workers' (1993) and 'Migrations and Portraits' (2000), which are a fraction of his large number of books. He's won several awards for recognition of his accomplishments and he is an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the United States.

Picking Tea, Rwanada, 1991

Salgado's book 'Workers' (1993) is one which I have found very useful with regards to my project! Within the book we are shown detailed aspects of various different areas works from all over the world. It is interesting to look at the details and aspects of different working practices, and it is useful to look through Salgados ideas and approaches.

Salgado has a mixture of close-ups and also has landscape images which allows a diverse mixture of images in a single project. Close images allow emphasis on the details within a project, it really focuses on the subject; in the project with the tea leave pickers, even though our subject is the pickers themselves, there are still close up images of the tea leaves themselves, as they are just as important to the project.

Picking Tea, Rwanada, 1991 

Salgado also includes landscape images which does include our subject matter, but also shows the vastness of the surrounding landscape, which is something which Salgado shows in his Tea Leave Picker Project.

Please find some links below to great websites where you can find out much more information about Salgado and browse more of his images.

https://www.artsy.net/artist/sebastiao-salgado

http://www.amazonasimages.com/
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sebastiaosalgado
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado.html