An Evening with Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil. After studying economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with numerous photo agencies until 1994, when he and wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work.

He has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have been presented in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa (2007). In 2004, Salgado began a project named Genesis, a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity’s rediscovery of itself in nature.

In addition to being a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, he is an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.

Together, he and his wife have worked since the 1990’s on the restoration of a small part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. In 1998 they succeeded in turning this land into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The Instituto is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education. The Salgados currently reside in Paris.

Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and ten works of nonfiction, including, in recent years, two New York Times bestsellers, The Art of Stillness and The Open Road, based on three decades of conversations and travels with the fourteenth Dalai Lama. He gave two-million view talks for TED.com in both 2013 and 2014–one on movement, one on stillness–and he writes up to 100 articles a year for such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s and Granta. Born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, Iyer grew up between England and California and has been based in rural Japan since 1992.

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Main image credit: (c) Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery