Sebastiao Salgado

[Marc]

Has anyone here heard of this guy? I was in Borders and picked up a copy of This and was blown away by some of the images within. Birthday in a couple of weeks, hints will be dropped!

 

[sawman]

He is a photographer I have admired for many years. Some of his images of mining were very moving. The suffering people were going through.

 

[mho]

My personal belief is he is the best photographer this planet has ever seen, his work is just outstanding, I wish I had 1% of the talent he has for seeing an image and capturing it.

 

[whooshdemon]

He's on the masters of photography http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado.html
and masters of fine art photography http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/02/06/salgado01.html
websites which is a pretty good sign of being a tog god.

 

[Deadhead]

My personal belief is he is the best photographer this planet has ever seen, his work is just outstanding, I wish I had 1% of the talent he has for seeing an image and capturing it.

Couldn't agree more. The guy has long been a personal hero. For his subject matter and his sublime photographic skills.

 

[Jayst84]

Yep, he really is very good. And a stunning printer to boot (if he prints his own stuff, I'm just assuming). Some people even accuse him of beautifying suffering because his pictures are so good, though I think that's a bit naive personally.

Check out Marcus Bleasdale if you haven't already. Very similar to Salgado in a lot of ways, though maybe not quite the finesse.

Random fact of the day: Both used to be bankers (Salgado an economist for the World Bank, and Bleasdale a London Broker) before realising they were wasting their lives and needed to do something more useful. There's hope yet.

 

[bailout]

I went to an exhibition if another photographer in London and they also had some of Salgado's pics which I was more impressed by than the main exhibit.