Sebastião Salgado, the Photographer of Great Natural Beauties and Human Atrocities

Known for his black and white photos, the French-Brazilian photographer first documented misery and pain before celebrating nature and life in his native Brazil.

“I think I have contributed to the awareness of the care of the planet.” Whoever made that balance of his life, six years ago in an interview in El País Semanal, was not a politician, nor a scientist, nor an ecologist. He was a photographer who perhaps had something of them all, Sebastião Salgado. A titan of 20th century documentary photography, a statesman who, after 80 years, still projected new reports in the Amazon about tribes that had had …

After documenting deep misery – refugees, famine, war – Brazilian-French photographer Sebastião Salgado decided to focus on the beauty the world has to offer and how to preserve it.

Photographers, filmmakers, photojournalists analyze their images and remind the master of photography