Sebastiao Salgado. Have you ever heard of him? This is one of his photographs. The English Class I am taking is about refugees. You could say that Salgado wrote the book on refugees. Yet, we don't have to read anything to feel the emotion he is trying to share with the world. Salgado, a documentary photographer, puts a picture to the things that we don't want to see. He shows the loathsome reality that exists in this world that we wish were only a movie. He shows it, and he brings it home.Salgado's art, as shown in this photo taken in the San Ysidro, CA border-control office, gives a voice to the oppressed of the world. It is this that I, myself, will spend this semester studying in English 150. As a main source of inspiration, I will be using Salgado's book, Migrations: Humanity in Transition.
Salgado said, "I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same." Thus, by exposing his art, I imagine I have the same motive. I hope that whomever reads this blog will change in some way. I hope they will have a desire to be the change that this world needs.
Works Cited
"UNICEF Special Representative Sebastiao Salgado." Changing the World with Children. UNICEF, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.unicef.org/salgado/index.html>
