1930–2018 · South Africa · Photographer
David Goldblatt
Quiet, analytical documentary of South African society under and after apartheid.
On the Mines (with Nadine Gordimer), 1973Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1944–2025 · BRAZIL
Sebastiao Salgado
Monumental black-and-white documentary of labour, migration and wild nature.
- Born
- 1944
- Died
- 2025
- Country
- Brazil
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1993Workers
- 2000Migrations
- 2013Genesis
WHY THEY MATTER
Former Magnum member; W. Eugene Smith Award; member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts; Genesis toured major museums worldwide.
THE LIFE
Salgado trained as an economist before taking up photography in the 1970s. He spent years on long projects about manual labour, migration and the natural world, published as Workers, Migrations and Genesis. With his wife Lelia he founded Instituto Terra, which replanted forest on his family's land in Brazil. His life was the subject of the documentary The Salt of the Earth.
Also born in 1930–1959
1930–2014 · Nigeria · Photographer
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
Sculptural black-and-white studies of Nigerian women's hairstyles.
Nigerian hairstyles (series), 1968Source: Wikipedia
1930–2012 · Japan · Photographer
Shomei Tomatsu
Dark, fragmentary images of postwar Japan and American occupation.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Document, 1961Source: Wikipedia
born 1931 · Brazil · Photographer
Claudia Andujar
Lyrical, often experimental images of the Yanomami people.
Yanomami: The House, The Forest, The Invisible, 1998Source: Wikipedia
1931–2016 · Hong Kong · Photographer
Fan Ho
Geometric light-and-shadow street scenes of 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong.
Approaching Shadow, 1954Source: Wikipedia
1933–2004 · United States · Photographer
Eddie Adams
News photography of war, politics and celebrity.
Saigon Execution, 1968Source: Wikipedia