Sebastião Salgado, photographer of truth

A photo can make us happy or surprise us, even the photography can touch us. About that is this post: A photographer able to shake us with his work. His name is Sebastião Salgado, he is from Brazil, and he is 74 years and when he was 29 and being a successful economist decided to dedicate himself to photography as an autodidact, then bought a camera and started to travel to take photography.

Today, Sebastião is documentary photographer and has been considered the best photographer of the beginning of the 21st century. Salgado makes an honest work, he can show raw reality without colors but full of lights, movements, gazes.

One of his projects is “Immigrants”, he wanted to show the exodus of communities from war or famine. This work is so strong and invites us to think in the humanity like a lost value.

Another project of Sebastião is “Workers” in there he wanted to show a simple and honest reality of people, but the result is so dramatic and powerful. But the result is about something common, I mean, the pain of immigrants or the force of workers is daily and everybody can see it, but sometimes we prefer not to see that.

I think the photography by Sebastião is so great, because he is able to show the truth without ornament, without poses and truth is deep and raw.