Word: sebastiao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November 12, 1992, thousands of Timorese gathered for a procession and demonstration in memory of Sebastiao Gomes, a young man who was killed for speaking out against the Indonesian government. They met at the church in Dili, East Timor, in which Gomes had sought refuge and where he was found by the Indonesian soldiers. His blood was still caked on the church steps...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...