What did Genesis celebrate?

Untouched landscapes, wildlife and peoples

What did Salgado and his wife create at Instituto Terra?

A reforestation project on his family farm

Sebastião Salgado Quiz: Genesis, Workers and Black-and-White

Sweeping black-and-white images of miners, migrants and untouched landscapes made one Brazilian photographer world-famous, and this Sebastião Salgado quiz looks at his major projects. Play 10 interactive questions on Minas Gerais, his economics career, Serra Pelada, Workers, Exodus, Genesis, Amazonia, Instituto Terra, The Salt of the Earth and his legacy.

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

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Which country was Salgado from?
Career
What did he do before becoming a photographer?
Style
What is his photography best known for?
Mine
Which Brazilian gold mine did he famously photograph in 1986?
Workers
What did his project Workers document?
Exodus
What was his project Exodus about?
Genesis
What did Genesis celebrate?
Terra
What did Salgado and his wife create at Instituto Terra?
Film
Which documentary about him did Wim Wenders co-direct?
Wife
Who was his longtime partner in designing books and exhibitions?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which country was Salgado from?
Answer: Brazil
He was born in Minas Gerais in 1944.
Q2: What did he do before becoming a photographer?
Answer: Worked as an economist
He worked on coffee projects.
Q3: What is his photography best known for?
Answer: Dramatic black-and-white images
He rarely worked in color.
Q4: Which Brazilian gold mine did he famously photograph in 1986?
Answer: Serra Pelada
Thousands of workers climbed its walls.
Q5: What did his project Workers document?
Answer: Manual labor around the world
It was published in 1993.
Q6: What was his project Exodus about?
Answer: Migration and displaced people
It was also called Migrations.
Q7: What did Genesis celebrate?
Answer: Untouched landscapes, wildlife and peoples
It took about eight years.
Q8: What did Salgado and his wife create at Instituto Terra?
Answer: A reforestation project on his family farm
Millions of trees were planted.
Q9: Which documentary about him did Wim Wenders co-direct?
Answer: The Salt of the Earth
His son Juliano co-directed.
Q10: Who was his longtime partner in designing books and exhibitions?
Answer: Lelia Wanick Salgado
They worked together for decades.

Sebastião Salgado Quiz – Genesis, Workers and Black-and-White

Sebastiao Salgado, born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1944, trained as an economist and worked on coffee projects before turning to photography in the 1970s. He became famous for dramatic black-and-white images.

His 1986 photographs of the Serra Pelada gold mine showed thousands of workers on its walls. Major projects include Workers, about manual labor, Exodus, about migration, Genesis, about untouched nature, and Amazonia.

With his wife, Lelia Wanick Salgado, he founded Instituto Terra, replanting forest on his family's land. Wim Wenders and their son Juliano made the documentary The Salt of the Earth about him. He died in 2025.

What This Quiz Teaches

Photography and art fans will enjoy these questions.

Where Salgado came from
How he started
Which projects he made
How he helped the environment
Which films cover him

Did You Know?

He worked for agencies including Magnum.
Genesis was shown in museums worldwide.
He spent months living with the people he photographed.
Lelia designed many of his books.
Amazonia was exhibited from 2021.