"I'm not the best photographer in the world, I'm the hardest-working, Sebastiao Salgado told me in a soft voice."
"A photographer belongs to a breed apart: I'm not an artist; a journalist reconstructs reality, but a photographer doesn't. I have the privilege of looking, nothing more."
"It's the best museum in the world!"
Sebastiao Salgado was born in Aimores, Minas Gerais in 1944 and trained as an economist before leaving Brazil in 1968 to work in London and Paris. He left the International Coffee Organization in 1973 to pursue photography after his wife Lelia Wanick lent him a camera, discovering that images conveyed reality better than numbers. He focused on extremes of the human condition, witnessing mass death in Rwanda and photographing migrant and labor scenes, often producing large-format, tactile and black-and-white projects. He presented Amazonia at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City on February 5, 2025 and died on May 23, 2025.
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