Salbastio Salgado

He is a brazilian social documentary photographer, he is also a photojournalist. Hes been to over 100 countries to take his images.
salgado trained as a economist put changed careers.
Most of his work is published in the form of an artists book, his subjects are people and he photographs the result of globalisation
'globalisation describes the spread of communication, technologies and production'

He photos 'reality' like Poverty (a key theme)

Salgado photographs in black and white and uses a 35mm film camera.
His photos are:
Atmospheric
Moody
Powerful
Meaningful
Have an air of dispare

He prints all the images himself.
Salgado wants to make you aware on how some people live, like he doesn't want to show you the pretty flowers he wants to show you the pain and suffering some people are doing though. He wants people to help find a solution, he wants people to help the people suffering due to poverty ie the people in some parts of africa.
The pictures are very revealing and are in some ways beautiful, the photos only take a second to take yet mean so much to so many people. He shows us how nothing really justifies the reason for war or poverty.
Salgado will live with the people in his picture for months before he takes any so he can gain the trust of them and get them to act natural and everyday in his images. He says he is aways privileged to take the images he does as it shows people what the world is really like.
He took all the kids pictures in one village as they were all pestering him to take them, these images went on to make a series of head and shoulder photos with each child looking directly into the camera, they each spoke with their eyes  showing how they wanted to 'exist' been seen and not forgotten. Each child has a sense of hope in there eyes and a need to be helped.