SEBASTIÃO SALGADO EXHIBITION
"DECLARATIONS"
MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
12 JUNE - 26 SEPTEMBER 2021
For this exhibition, Sebastião Salgado's photographs illustrate some of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed on December 10, 1948. The right to life, freedom, asylum, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to education, work and others, articles that particularly echo the humanist values that the photographer illustrates by looking back at his work.
Discover or rediscover photographs taken throughout his 40-year career in twenty countries. 31 photographs taken in 20 countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Algeria, Bosnia, Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania. Images as moving testimonies that embody the need to defend on a daily basis the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, regardless of the region of the world concerned, highlighting the universal scope of this text.
Curator of the exhibition – Lélia Wanick Salgado
biography
Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and lives in Paris. An economist by training, he began his career as a photographer in Paris in 1973, working successively with the agencies Sygma, Gamma and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and Lélia Wanick-Salgado founded the amazonas images news agency, dedicated exclusively to his photographic work. This structure is now their Studio.
He travels to more than 100 countries for his photographic projects, which, beyond numerous publications in the international press, have been featured in books such as Other Americas(1986), Sahel, The Man in Distress(1986), A Certain Grace (1990),The Hand of Man (1993),Terra(1997),Exoduses and Children of Exodus (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), Terres de café (2015), Kuwait, a desert on fire (2016) and Gold, Serra Pelada Gold Mine (2019). These books were designed and designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado.
Travelling exhibitions of these works have been and continue to be presented to this day in major museums and galleries on all continents. Lélia Wanick Salgado is the designer and curator.
Salgado's latest photographic project is about the Brazilian Amazon and its inhabitants, the Indian communities. The objective of this work is to try to make them known and to show the threats that the forest and these Indians face, illegal logging, gold panning, construction of hydraulic dams, livestock breeding, soybean cultivation, and increasingly the effects of climate change. This work has been presented to the public since May 2021 in book form and exhibitions, under the title AMAZÔNIA.
Several works on the life and career of the photographer have emerged, such as the book De ma terre à la Terre (2013),a story through the pen of the journalist Isabelle Francq; and in 2014 the documentary film Salt of the Earth, co-directed by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders, presents his life and work in cinema. This film received the Special Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the un Certain Regard category, as well as the César for best documentary film in 2015; it was also nominated for the 87th Academy Awards.
Salgado's involvement goes beyond his photographs. Since the 1990s, he has been working with his wife Lélia to rebuild the environment of part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais. By returning to nature a piece of land they owned, they transformed this land into a nature reserve and in 1998 created the Instituto Terra, which has reforestation and environmental education as its mission.
For their action developed at the Instituto Terra, Sebastião and Lélia received in 2012 the Personalidade Ambiental Award from WWF-Brasil and, in 2017, the Tribute of the Year by the jury of the Hugo Werneck Environment Prize.
Salgado has been awarded numerous awards for his work and has received
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