Sebastião Salgado, Behind the Lens
by
Sebastião Salgado and Audrey Singer
| August 5, 2010
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Summer 2010
Through in-depth projects that explore social issues, Sebastiao Salgado’s photography parallels the field of sociology. As the winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2010 Award for Excellence in Reporting Social Issues, Salgado shares his thoughts on social analysis and photography.
Authors
Sebastião Salgado is winner of the American Sociological Association's 2010 Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. Salgado’s current project, Genesis, is documenting some of the most pristine places on the planet, seemingly untouched by human development.
Audrey Singer is in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.