Enter the world of Sebastião Salgado, the Sony World Photography Award's 2024 Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient, in this special artist film.
One of the world's most influential photographers, Salgado was born in 1944 in Aimorés, Brazil. Following his studies, he began his career as an economist before starting to work as a freelance photographer in 1973. Today, Salgado’s photographs are included in the collections of numerous major museums and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the National Museum of Modern art in Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. In 2019, he was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2022 he received the ICP Lifetime Achievement Infinity Award. With his wife Léila Wanick Salgado, he is the founder of the Instituto Terra, dedicated to the recovery of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. He is based between France and Brazil.
The Sony World Photography Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography title is given to a person or group of people that have made a significant impact on the photographic medium. The recipients have produced powerful imagery that continues to captivate, educate and inspire us as much today as when they were first made. The Award is a celebration of voices behind some of the most groundbreaking photographic work of our time. The recipients have work housed in the world’s finest museums, galleries and institutions and are celebrated and loved for their pioneering imagery.
28 авг 2024
