Sebastião Salgado. Workers. An Archaeology of the Industrial Age

Sebastião Salgado is a master at transforming his photojournalism into paintings in the best sense of the word, images that move and touch. * Welt am Sonntag *The book is a work of art, a sociological study and a historical document all in one, celebrating human fortitude in the toughest of challenges. * Femmes Magazine *Salgado’s Workers: a respectful look at hard labor… The illustrated book pushes them back into our consciousness with great respect. * NDR *Workers is a book published by TASCHEN of current importance… Photographs in the finest print that flatters Sebastião Salgado’s unique visual aesthetic. Fold-outs allow the reader to delve deeper into the stories… Less a book, more a journey. * Photographie *Salgado’s pictures will endure - as moving testimonies to human resilience. This is impressively demonstrated in Workers. * Weltwoche *The Brazilian documentary photographer has produced one outstanding series of images after another, revealing the lives of people around the planet, from indigenous communities and migrants to steel workers and farmers. * Black+White Photography *The book delivers a masterclass in photographic technique - content and contrast, lighting and composition. * Amateur Photographer *This book is a tribute to those men and women who still work as they have for centuries. * Sebastião Salgado *

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastião Salgado’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work.

Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amazônia (2021).