Videos covering Salgado's work:
50 words describing his work:
Shocking
Overseen
Uncovered
Serene
Beautiful
Natural
Compassion
Keen
Vision
Hindsight
Calm
Stable
Consistent
Alive
Unbelievable
Insightful
Undiscovered
Venturing
Silent
Outspoken
Timid
Imaginative
Patient
Deep
Delicate
Sensible
Sensitive
Logical
Careful
Conscientious
Watchful
Powerful
Overlooking
Striking
Gentle
Responsible
Orderly
Close
Dutiful
Dramatic
Awesome
Direct
Helpful
Outgoing
Earnest
Emotional
Experienced
Preserving
Kind
Friendly
Mature
Modest
6 Key Words:
Striking: attracting attention by reason of being unusual, extreme, or prominent.
Preserving: maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
Logical: of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument.
Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
Watchful: watching or observing someone or something closely; alert and vigilant.
6 Compound Words:
Over-Seeing
Under-Appreciated
Close-Preservation
Ultra-Patient
Re-Evaluating
Petcha Kucha on Sebastiao Salgado (Outline)
Slide 1
Salgado
is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He has
traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these
have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of
this work have been presented throughout the world. Longtime gallery
director Hal Gould considers Salgado to be
the most important photographer of the early 21st century
Slide 2
Salgado
initially trained as an economist, earning a master's degree in economics from He
began work as an economist traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking
photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to
photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more
towards documentary-type work.
Slide 3
Between 1977 and 1984, after a few
years of photographic adventures in Europe and Africa, Sebastião Salgado made
several trips to Latin America, travelling from the coastal lowlands of
Northeastern Brazil to the mountains of Chile, to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador,
Guatemala and Mexico, through the indescribable and the locals ferocious fight
for survival in the lands so arid and so poor.
Slide 4
In 1986 Sebastião Salgado began a series of reportages on the
theme of manual labor, throughout the different continents. This work was
conceived to tell the story of an era. The images offer a visual archaeology of
a time that history knows as the Industrial Revolution, a time when men and
women working with their hands provided the central axis of the world.
Slide
5
By 1999,
Salgado was also completing Migrations, a six-year photographic chronicle of the human flood
tides set loose around the world by wars, famines or just people searching for
work. The project took him to refugee camps and war zones and left him wrung
out physically and emotionally. “I had seen so much brutality. I didn’t trust
anymore in anything,” he says. “I didn’t trust in the survival of our species.”
Slide
6
Salgado
decided for his next project, why not travel to unspoiled locales—places that
double as environmental memory banks, holding recollections of earth’s
primordial glories? His purpose, Salgado decided, “would not be to photograph
what is destroyed but what is still pristine, to show what we must hold and
protect.” He likes to quote a hopeful statistic: “45% of our planet is still
what it was at the beginning.
Slide 7
As part of
the Genesis project, Salgado has made
32 trips since 2004, visiting the Kalahari Desert, the jungles of Indonesia and
biodiversity hot spots such as the Galápagos Islands and Madagascar. He hovered
in balloons over herds of water buffalo in Africa (“If you come in planes or
helicopters you scatter them”).
Slide 8
He
traveled across Siberia with the nomadic Nenets, people who move their reindeer
hundreds of miles each year to seasonal pasture. “I learned from them the
concept of the essential,” he says. “If you give them something they can’t
carry, they won’t accept it.”
Slide 9
Salgados Genesis project
is an attempt to portray the beauty and the majesty of regions that are still
in a pristine condition, areas where landscapes and wildlife are still
unspoiled, places where human communities continue to
live according to their ancient culture and traditions. Once the Genesis project is completed, an international
presentation of the images will be made in the form of one or several books and
exhibitions the same way his other works were published.
Slide 10
After looking over a handful
of Salgados’ work we can see some of the striking moments he captures as well
as the purposes for this work whether it be to shed light on the reality of
living conditions for people in struggling countries or to preserve an
environment, I believe Salgado to be the most important photographer of our
lifetime.
