Sebastião Salgado

  • Book incl. Signed photo
    Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. A Desert on Fire. Art Edition
    Box 48,5 x 45,5 cm, Book 46 x 41,5 cm, Photo 40,5 x 30 cm
    Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’
    60 x 50 cm
    Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 1–100 ‘Adão Yawanawá in a headdress of eagle feathers’
    60 x 50 cm
    Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 101–200 ‘Young Hatiri Suruwahá bathes in a backwater of the Pretão stream’
    60 x 50 cm
    Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 201–300 ‘Marauiá Mountain Range’
    60 x 50 cm
    Sebastião Salgado GENESIS Art Edition No.101–200
  • Signed book
    "Amazonia" personally signed
    Kuwait. A Desert on Fire
    Book 32,5 x 29,5
    Africa
    Book 36,5 x 26,5
  • Books
    Genesis
    24,3 x 35,5 cm
  • Biography

    Sebastião Salgado began photographing in the early 1970s when Lélia bought a camera to use whilst studying architecture. In 1973 he gave up his career as an economist as photography made ‘a total invasion’ of his life. After working for the Sygma and Gamma photo agencies, in 1979 he joined Magnum, the prestigious agency that had been founded by the four fathers of modern photojournalism – Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour. He cemented his reputation as a photojournalist, however, when he captured the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in March 1981.

    Leaving Magnum in 1994, Salgado set up the photo agency, Amazonas Images, in partnership with Lélia to promote his photography. In 1999 the couple also founded the Instituto Terra, a non-profit organisation established to conserve the Atlantic rainforest that surrounded his family home. Taking over the cattle ranch that had been owned by his father, Sebastião and Lélia set about undoing the devastation caused by deforestation and erosion and recreated a forest with the species that had once flourished there.