Wim Wenders

Occupation

Filmmaker

The Salt Of The Earth - Trailer

On 8th February, 1944, Sebastião Salgado was born in Brazil. He went on to gain a scholarship for master's degree in economics, before getting married. When his wife bought a camera, Salgado took his first ever picture, of his wife. This inspired a career shift, with Salgado becoming enamoured by the very idea of photography, and taking it up as a full tie profession. Salgado travelled the globe, taking pictures of everyone and everything, yet there was always one constant in his work: the effects that people had on the world, and the art of photography.

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