Sebastião Selgado

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He focuses on stories of images which come usually in a sequence, such as these images are from his collection of manual labor, named "Workers."

He tries to convey power through the way his images are framed, such as in the image below of the worker stood by ladders full of people, Sebastiao Selgado shot this image from a low perspective to show that the man is powerful and brave due to the manual labor he is doing.

Selgado uses the same technique as before in this image of a manual laborer protesting against the police.He shot the image from a low angle and also from an angle where the policeman is lower down than the worker, this shows that that worker has power over the military police which are supposed to be powerful themselves.


                                                                      

Selgado also uses the strong black and white images to add to the sense of the oily and dirty, hard labor that these people have to do, because of the deep tones our eye is locked within the image. To the left of this image he shows the worker being sprayed with oil and then the huge explosion in the right third of the frame. this shows that he is working in very dangerous conditions and the composition in this image separates these two thirds to add more impact to the image.