Sebastião Salgado

Workers, published in 1993, is a black-and-white photographic study of manual labor around the world. It includes images of miners, ship breakers, factory workers, and agricultural laborers at a moment when industrial work was changing rapidly.

Genesis shifts from labor and migration toward landscapes, wildlife, and communities less transformed by industrial modernity. The project was shown widely in the 2010s and presented nature as something still worth defending rather than only as a record of human suffering.

The Salt of the Earth, released in 2014, is a documentary about Salgado directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the photographer's son. It covers major projects including Workers, Exodus, and Genesis.

Instituto Terra is the environmental restoration project Salgado founded with Lelia Wanick Salgado in Brazil. It is tied to the reforestation of degraded Atlantic Forest land on his family's former farm in Minas Gerais.