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Award-Winning Brazilian Photographer Sebastiao Salgado Dies at Age 81, His Institute Says

Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian photographer and environmentalist, died at age 81, confirmed by Instituto Terra on Friday in 2025.
Salgado developed leukemia as a complication of malaria contracted in 2010 while working in Indonesia, leading to his death after long illness.
He gained international acclaim for his black-and-white photography documenting impoverished communities, labor, migration, and environmental issues across 120 countries.
Instituto Terra, established by Salgado alongside his wife, praised him as an exceptional photographer whose work uncovered the complexities and contradictions of the world.
Salgado's death leaves a large, influential legacy in documentary photography and environmental restoration, embodied by his awards and the Instituto Terra reforestation project.

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El Universo

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Brazilian Photographer Sebastião Salgado, ‘Great Witness of the Human Condition’, Died at 81 Years of Age

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, known for his great black and white images of the Amazon or of some conflicts of the world, died this Friday in Paris at the age of 81, reported his family and the French Academy of Fine Arts.

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Brazil - Photographer Sebastião Salgado Died at the Age of 81

The photographer Sebastião Salgado has received many awards for his social documentary black-and-white images. He became world famous with a report on goldsmiths in Brazil. Now he died at the age of 81.

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Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81

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The Photographer Sebastião Salgado, a Great Witness of the State of the World, Died

The one whose life was reported in the documentary "The Salt of the Earth" was 81 years old.

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Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado dead at 81

SAO PAULO - Sebastiao Salgado, the Brazilian photographer whose black-and-white images of workers, migrants, and humanity's conflicted relationship with nature captivated the world, has died of leukemia at the age of 81, his family said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies aged 81: French Academy of Fine Arts

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