Sebastiao Salgado: Exodus

Overview

Renowned Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado makes excruciatingly beautiful images of people and places few of us venture to see. His recent “Migrations” series documents refugees, exiles, orphans, landless peasants, homeless families, and boat people, all of whom have been displaced by explosive population growth, environmental degradation, natural disasters, economic pressures, and war. From 1994 to 1999, Salgado chronicled mass migrations in more than 35 countries including Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Angola, Mozambique, Lebanon, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Balkans. This exhibition presents a selection of photographs from the “Migrations” series, in conjunction with the traveling exhibition showing concurrently at the Berkeley Art Museum.

 

Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Trained as an economist, he began working as a photojournalist in 1973. He was inspired to pursue personal projects while covering news events, leading to such series as Other Americas (1986) and Workers (1993). Salgado currently resides in Paris.

 

The book Sebastiao Salgado — Migrations: Humanity in Transition, published by Aperture (2000), is available for purchase.