Sebastião Salgado Introduction

I apologize for this blog being a couple hours late. Being sick isn't easy and its definitely hard to focus sometimes. :/
The purpose of this blog is to write about an artist and exam his pictures. To do that i would like to supply a little bit of background about him. His name is Sebastião Salgado. He is Brazilian and was born in 1944. After growing up he studied and became an economist; specifically for the International Coffee Organization. His hobby at the time was photography and later chose to abandon his career as an economist and became a photographer. After working for a couple of different companies he started his own in 1994 called Amazonas Images. He is known for his work in underdeveloped countries. We will be examining various images from his book Migrations: Humanity in Transition. For many of us, these photographs introduce us to a part of the world that we have only vaguely heard about and it's something that we should all be aware of. There are always people in need. This picture is just one example of many from his book. Sebastião Salgado has been named one of the most important photographers of the early 21st Century by Hal Gould.


Salgado, Sebastião. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Page 78.