Sebastião Salgado

Known for: long-term documentary projects on labor and migration

Sebastião Salgado trained as an economist before taking up photography in his late twenties, producing long-term documentary projects that have spanned decades and continents. His Workers (1993) and Migrations (2000) documented labor and displacement at a scale few photographers have attempted. In parallel with his photographic work, he and his wife Lélia have replanted more than two million trees on degraded land in Brazil through the Instituto Terra.