São Paulo, Brazil

Sebastião Salgado

negative 1996; print 2008

Gelatin silver print

J. Paul Getty Museum

A group of babies are lying and sitting on a blanket outdoors, with a cityscape of tall buildings in the background. One baby is in a high chair. Sebastião Salgado is widely considered to be one of the most important independent photojournalists of our day. The work comes from Salgado's epic project, Migrations, which documents people across 43 countries whose lives have been uprooted by the effects of globalization, persecution, or war.