{"id":1925,"date":"2017-04-04T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgauthier.ca\/en\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2017-04-04T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:57:09","slug":"sebastiao-salgado-photographe-humaniste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cgauthier.ca\/en\/2017\/04\/04\/sebastiao-salgado-photographe-humaniste\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastiao Salgado, Photographer and Humanitarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our discussion focuses on the work of photographer and humanitarian Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado. His penetrating vision of the world through humanitarian disasters in Africa such as the drought in Sahel in 1973 or the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 have allowed us to understand the magnitude of human upheavals related to famines and wars. He is referred to as the master of aesthetic transfiguration of horror. His staging of the world’s misery by explicit and suggestive images engender lively emotions in people.<\/p>\n

\u00ab Photography is not an objective practice. It is essentially subjective: my practice is in line with my ideological and ethical values. \u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Brazil in 1944 in the state of Minas Gerais (South-East region). His family owns a land for 2 generations. By the cutting of timber in tropical forests and livestock culture, his father was able to ensure the education of his son and his 7 daughters.<\/p>\n

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Salgado’s father explained how he was able to ensure the education of his 8 children by cutting woods in the tropical forest and by operating livestock..<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1969, he left for France, fleeing the political challenges in Brazil. His studies in Economics in Paris enabled him to understand the international meanders, the trade and the industry: “I understood what makes the world turn”. He worked for the World Organization of Coffee, with the objective to work for the World Bank.<\/p>\n

He left for Africa to put in place economic development programs. It was then there that he discovered photography and decided to abandon his profession as an economist.<\/p>\n

It was during that period that the big change occurred. He discovered photography as a method of communication. On this basis, he dove into major social projects, in partnership with his wife Lelia Wanick Salgado who was in charge of the research, design and production.<\/p>\n

In 1973, he left for Niger to produce his own pictures of the great drought. It was his first great coverage on important human upheavals.<\/p>\n

Setting the scene of the world’s misery, explicit images, well composed, suggestive, he knows the way to appeal to the emotions. It was at that moment that his role as a photographer takes its true meaning.<\/p>\n

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