Social Photography

Social Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. Photography that makes social structures, inequality, and communal issues visible in a critical way. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts

MovementSocial Photography

Photographers2

Overview

Photography that makes social structures, inequality, and communal issues visible in a critical way.

Photographers

🇧🇷BR1944–

Sebastião Salgado

Humanist Documentary

Sebastiao Salgado moved from economics to photography because he felt that numbers and reports could not convey human suffering with the force that images might.

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🇿🇦ZA1976–

Pieter Hugo

Portrait

Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a South African photographic artist based in Cape Town.

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