In a career spanning nearly five decades, Sebastião Salgado has traveled the world to report on the lives of people and the state of the planet. At 77, the multi-award-winning academician still defines himself as a photographer.
In hindsight, what do you think of your career? I left Brazil with my wife in 1969 and became a photographer in 1973, after studying economics. Photography has been a way of living and seeing throughout my career. I’m not an activist for any particular party or cause, but I’m concerned about what’s happening on the other side of the globe because of my heritage. I come from a country that’s still in the process of development, and I’m part of the generation that left the countryside for the city. I campaigned against the dictatorship until I had to leave.
Your books, whose titles speak for themselves, mark your path as well as social issues of the past 50 years. Does each one attest to a chapter in your life? Yes, because each represents several years of work. But above all, I photographed immigrants because I was one myself, refugees, because I was one too, and if I was interested in workers, it’s because to me the working class is the basis of…
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