Sebastiao Salgado, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC - Migrations

Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
June 29 - August 24, 2001

The Yancey Richardson Gallery presents an exhibition of work by the internationally renowned photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Coinciding with Sebastiao Salgado’s large-scale exhibition at the International Center of Photography, Migrations documents the seismic shift in human populations around the world. For this most recent project, Sebastiao Salgado photographed migrants, refugees and displaced persons over a seven year period in 40 countries. His work captures the late 20th century phenomenon of whole cultures being displaced. Sebastiao Salgado documents Latin American and Asian peasants abandoning rural poverty for the promise of the megacity. The work includes images of the Hutu escaping from Rwanda into Zaire, the Bosnia refugees fleeing the Balkan strife, and the assimilation of the Amazonian Yanomani Indians.

Sebastiao Salgado states, "People have always migrated, but something different is happening now. For me, this worldwide population upheaval represents a change of historic significance. We are undergoing a revolution in the way we live, produce, communicate, and travel. Most of the world's inhabitants are now urban. We have become one world: in distant corners of the globe, people are being displaced for essentially the same reasons."

Sebastiao Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944. He was educated in Brazil and later received a Ph. D in economics. He began working as a photojournalist in 1973 and later worked with the Magnum Photo Agency. Aperture published An Uncertain Grace in 1990 and Workers followed in 1993. He has been honored with several prestigious awards including Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography and received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Most recently Sebastiao Salgado won the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. He has been the subject of largescale solo exhibitions at major museums around the world including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum for Photographic Arts in San Diego among others. 

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