Photographers Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado

Living place: Brazil

Birthday: 8-2-1944 (80 years old)

Global rank: #91893

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Who is Photographers Sebastiao Salgado?
Award-winning photographer known for photojournalistic projects such as Migrations, Sahel: The End of the Road, and Genesis. His social-themed documentary projects often focus on the plight of workers in third world countries.
He received the Royal Photographic Society Medal in 1993 and a scholarship.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying economics at the University of Sao Paulo, he worked for the International Coffee Organization. It was during his worldwide travels with this organization that he first became interested in photography.

Family life info

He founded a photography agency called Amazonas Photos with his wife, Lelia Wanick Salgado.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Photographers Sebastiao Salgado?
He and Australian artist Ken Done both became UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors.

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When was Photographers Sebastiao Salgado born?
Sebastiao Salgado birthday 8-2-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Photographers Sebastiao Salgado's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Sebastiao Salgado was born in Brazil. is a Photographers, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Sebastiao Salgado's global rank is 91893 and whose rank is 272 in list of famous Photographers.
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Events in 1944 and 8-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Sebastiao Salgado

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
  • Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
  • Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
  • Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday Sebastiao Salgado (8-2) in history

  • Day 8-2 year 1587: Queen Mary of Scotland was beheaded for treason. Her son, King James VI of Scotland, calmly accepted his mother's execution.
  • Day 8-2 year 1693: The founding date of William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth oldest among English-speaking countries.
  • Day 8-2 year 1870: The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
  • Day 8-2 year 1904: The Russo-Japanese war began when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in northeast China.
  • Day 8-2 year 1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles.
  • Day 8-2 year 1924: The gas chamber was used for the first time as a method of execution in the United States. Gangster Gee Jon was put to death at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.
  • Day 8-2 year 1960: The payola (pay for broadcast airplay) hearings opened in the U.S. House of Representatives. Dick Clark would testify in April.
  • Day 8-2 year 1980: President Jimmy Carter revealed his plan to reinstate selective service draft registration.
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