What is Instituto Terra?

A reforestation project he founded with his wife

Salgado Workers Quiz: Manual Labor in Black and White

This salgado workers quiz climbs the muddy ladders of a Brazilian gold mine. Play 10 interactive questions on the Brazilian photographer trained as an economist, a project spanning about six years and dozens of countries, the Serra Pelada gold mine, oil well firefighters in Kuwait, dramatic black and white prints, the 1993 book and his later reforestation work with Lélia Wanick Salgado.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Which country is Salgado from?
Train
What was Salgado's first profession?
Subject
What does the Workers series document?
Mine
Which famous Brazilian site appears in Workers?
Ladders
What did miners climb at Serra Pelada?
Kuwait
Which dangerous work did he photograph in Kuwait?
Mono
Which style did he use?
Book
When was the Workers book published?
Terra
What is Instituto Terra?
Film
Which documentary is about Salgado?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which country is Salgado from?
Answer: Brazil
A Brazilian photographer.
Q2: What was Salgado's first profession?
Answer: Economist
Before photography.
Q3: What does the Workers series document?
Answer: Manual labor worldwide
Industrial work.
Q4: Which famous Brazilian site appears in Workers?
Answer: Serra Pelada gold mine
Thousands of miners.
Q5: What did miners climb at Serra Pelada?
Answer: Ladders out of a huge pit
Carrying sacks of earth.
Q6: Which dangerous work did he photograph in Kuwait?
Answer: Firefighters capping oil wells
After the Gulf War.
Q7: Which style did he use?
Answer: Black and white
Dramatic tones.
Q8: When was the Workers book published?
Answer: 1993
After years of work.
Q9: What is Instituto Terra?
Answer: A reforestation project he founded with his wife
Replanting forest.
Q10: Which documentary is about Salgado?
Answer: The Salt of the Earth
Co-directed by Wim Wenders.

Hands That Built the Industrial Age

Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian who trained as an economist, turned to photography and became known for epic black and white projects. Workers, published in 1993, documented manual labor around the world over about six years.

Among its most famous images are those from the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil, where thousands of mud-covered miners climbed ladders out of a vast pit carrying sacks of earth. He also photographed firefighters capping burning oil wells in Kuwait after the Gulf War.

Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado founded Instituto Terra, replanting forest on degraded land in Brazil. The documentary The Salt of the Earth, co-directed by Wim Wenders, tells his story.

What This Quiz Teaches

Photography fans will enjoy these questions.

Where Salgado is from
What Workers shows
Which scenes stand out
Which style he used
What else he did

Did You Know?

He also made the series Genesis.
Lélia designed many of his books.
His prints are large and dramatic.
Workers spanned many countries.
He worked for photo agencies early on.