The Salt of the Earth

Who? Over his extraordinary 40-year career, Brazilian-born photographer Sebastião Salgado has crossed continents, from native South America to Africa and Eastern Europe, silently documenting the lives of the people he met. A trained economist, Salgado turned to photography after relocating to Paris in the 1970s. A major exponent of ‘concerned photography’, Salgado took in wars, suffering, famine, genocides and exodus, putting himself through death, insanity…