Sebastiao Reibeiro Salgado Junior (8th February, 1944 Age 76) is a Brazilian Social Documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has basically travelled over 120 Countries only for his photographic projects. Most (or all) of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Turing exhibitions of his work has been presented throughout the whole world. Saldago trained as a Economist, while earning a masters degree in economics from the University Of São Paulo in Brazil. He started to work as a Economist for the INO (International Coffee Organisation), often travelling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose (in his own opinion) to abandon a career as a economist and chose to continue taking photographs in 1973.
He published different books such as The Other Americas, Sahel, Migrations, and Genesis.
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