Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 85,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Guatemala by Sebastião Salgado — VisualArtsDB

Home
Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala

Sebastião Salgado

1978

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 29.3 × 43.6 cm (11 9/16 × 17 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 × 51 cm (15 15/16 × 20 1/8 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Tags

photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paper

More by Sebastião Salgado

Preparing a young girl for the final stage of the Amuricumã ceremony at the Kamayura village. Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Preparing a young girl for the final stage of the Amuricumã ceremony at the Kamayura village. Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Sebastião Salgado, 2005

Kamen Volcano (foreground) and Kluchevskoy Volcano (background). Kamchatka’s two highest peaks. Kamchatka. Russia.

Kamen Volcano (foreground) and Kluchevskoy Volcano (background). Kamchatka’s two highest peaks. Kamchatka. Russia.

Sebastião Salgado, 2006

Performer of the singsing festival of Mount Hagen. Western Highlands Province. Papua New Guinea.

Performer of the singsing festival of Mount Hagen. Western Highlands Province. Papua New Guinea.

Sebastião Salgado, 2008

Basaltic organ pipes on Mitsio Island. Madagascar.

Basaltic organ pipes on Mitsio Island. Madagascar.

Sebastião Salgado, 2010

On the plateau of the Kukenan Tepui, wind and water erosion has sculpted bizarre shapes from the ancient rocks. Amazonia. Venezuela.

On the plateau of the Kukenan Tepui, wind and water erosion has sculpted bizarre shapes from the ancient rocks. Amazonia. Venezuela.

Sebastião Salgado, 2006

Three Communion Girls, Brazil

Three Communion Girls, Brazil

Sebastião Salgado, 1981

Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995

Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995

Sebastião Salgado, 1995

Group portrait of all the Kamayura shamans. Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Group portrait of all the Kamayura shamans. Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Sebastião Salgado, 2006

The biguatinga, or anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), is a large aquatic bird. Here it has just caught a lambari (Astyanax bimaculatus). Cuiabá River in northern Pantanal. Mato Grosso, Brazil.

The biguatinga, or anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), is a large aquatic bird. Here it has just caught a lambari (Astyanax bimaculatus). Cuiabá River in northern Pantanal. Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Sebastião Salgado, 2011

Brasil

Brasil

Sebastião Salgado, 1983

Burundi

Burundi

Sebastião Salgado, 1995

The Erg Ubari is a vast expanse of sand dunes. It has no fresh water, but it contains a number of salt lakes concentrated in an area known as the “Ramla d’El Daouda,” meaning the Dune of the Worm-Eaters. Libya.

The Erg Ubari is a vast expanse of sand dunes. It has no fresh water, but it contains a number of salt lakes concentrated in an area known as the “Ramla d’El Daouda,” meaning the Dune of the Worm-Eaters. Libya.

Sebastião Salgado, 2009