Renowned Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado makes
excruciatingly beautiful images of people and places few of us
venture to see. His recent "Migrations" series documents
refugees, exiles, orphans, landless peasants, homeless families,
and boat people, all of whom have been displaced by explosive
population growth, environmental degradation, natural
disasters, economic pressures, and war. From 1994 to 1999,
Salgado chronicled mass migrations in more than 35 countries
including Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Angola, Mozambique, Lebanon,
the Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Balkans.
This exhibition presents a selection of photographs from the
"Migrations" series, in conjunction with the traveling exhibition
showing concurrently at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic
prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the
United States. Trained as an economist, he began working as a
photojournalist in 1973. He was inspired to pursue personal
projects while covering news events, leading to such series as
Other Americas (1986) and Workers (1993). Salgado currently
resides in Paris.

The book Sebastião Salgado -- Migrations: Humanity in
Transition,published by Aperture (2000), is available for
purchase.

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Can Suffering Be Too Beautiful?
by Michael Kimmelman
The New York Times, 13 July, 2001