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Award-Winning Brazilian Photographer Sebastiao Salgado Dies at Age 81, His Institute Says
- Sebastião Salgado, a renowned photographer and environmental advocate from Brazil, passed away at the age of 81, Instituto Terra announced on Friday.
- Salgado and his wife founded Instituto Terra in 1998 to reforest degraded land in Brazil, reflecting their commitment to environmental restoration.
- Known for black-and-white images depicting poverty, migration, and labor, Salgado traveled extensively since 1973, producing major projects like Workers and Amazônia.
- Instituto Terra described Sebastião as among the finest photographers of our era, while President Lula honored him as one of the greatest photographers the world has ever seen.
- Salgado leaves a vast photographic legacy and reforested over 1,500 acres, suggesting his influence extends across art and environmental advocacy.
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Sebastião Salgado, legendary political photographer, dies at 81
“I'm a person that comes from the left, comes from a humanist way of thinking. So, my photography couldn't be separate from that. It couldn't not serve those causes.” – Sebastião Salgado Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, one of the most important and well-known photographers in the world, died May 23 at the age of 81. His stark images, mostly shot on film in black and white with high contrast and often with dramatic light, are unmistakab…
The beauty of the miserable: To the death of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
There ceases to be an indispensable South American image worker
On 23 May, at the age of 81, Sebastian Salgado, a Brazilian documentary photographer known for his smashing black-and-white staff, died in which he captured the devastating impact of mankind on the nature and difficult lives of workers, migrants and refugees, while Salgado was honored for photographs of Brazilian poor people in gold mines, refugees in Rwanda and oil workers in Kuwait, but another important project was the restoration of the trop…
Sebastião Salgado, an icon of contemporary photography, left on Friday, May 23, after 81 years of life. He, a tireless traveler, on that day committed the unforgivable raving of leaving on his only trip without return.
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