Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist known for powerful black-and-white imagery documenting labor, migration and the environment. Noted for long-term projects such as Workers, Migrations and Genesis; co-founder of Amazonas Images and of the Instituto Terra reforestation project.
Books
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1. Workers
An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
A powerful black-and-white photographic portrait of labor around the world, capturing the dignity, hardship, and often dangerous conditions of men and women who perform the planet’s hardest physical work. Through large-scale, intimate images of miners, steelworkers, shipbreakers, farmers and other manual laborers, the book documents both timeless craft and the disruptive effects of industrial decline and globalization, combining aesthetic rigor with social witness. The photographs emphasize physical detail, weathered faces and bodies, and the monumental scale of machines and landscapes, inviting reflection on human resilience, exploitation, and the vanishing trades that shape modern economies.
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