Sebastião Salgado

“contradictory photographer”

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16891065

Keywords:

Sebastião Salgado, photo essay, documentary photography

Abstract

Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) was renowned for his black-and-white series dedicated to labor (he became famous for his essay on the mines of Sierra Pelada, in Pará, Brazil), famine in Ethiopia, genocide in Rwanda, and other realities about the living conditions of the most vulnerable people in the many poor countries where he developed his vast photographic work. His photographs, charged with a mixture of emotion, beauty, and sadness, are published in books such as Other Americas (Contrejour and ELR, 1986), Workers (Phaidon, 1993), and in his projects Exodus (2005) and Genesis (2013), the latter dedicated to environmental protection.

 

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Author Biography

  • Francisco Camacho-Rodríguez, Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado

    Full Professor at the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), Venezuela. PhD in History (Universidad Central de Venezuela), MSc in History (UCLA), BA in Social Communication (Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta). Researcher, historian, essayist. Areas of interest: History, Political Philosophy, and Social Communication. Honorable Mention in the 20th International Competition of the Latin American Center for Development Administration (CLAD) on State Reform and Modernization of Public Administration. 2017. Since 2016, he has been the Director-Editor of Mayéutica revista científica de humanidades y artes at UCLA.
    He has worked as a journalist and photographer for Venezuelan print media.

References

Colorado, o. (23 de febrero de 2013). Sebastião Salgado: entre la fama y la sospecha. Oscarenfotos.https://oscarenfotos.com/2013/02/23/sebastiaosalgado/

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Published

2025-07-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): Mayéutica Revista Científica de Humanidades y Artes

Section

Información científica y cultural

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How to Cite

Sebastião Salgado: “contradictory photographer”. (2025). Mayéutica Revista Científica de Humanidades Y Artes, 13(2), 203-210. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16891065