Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Salgado in 2016
Salgado (left) gives current Brazilian president Lula da Silva his new book in 2006, during Lula's first presidency.
View of Salgado's Genesis exhibition in 2014
Social documentary photography
Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of what the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography, with the aim to draw the public's attention to ongoing social issues. It may also refer to a socially critical genre of photography dedicated to showing the life of underprivileged or disadvantaged people.
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888) by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half Lives.
Child laborer (Lewis Hine, USA, 1908).
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz: Tobacco Harvesting, Valle de Viñales, Cuba 2002