Famed Photographer Sebastiao Salgado Dies at 81

Sebastião Salgado: a photographer of great humanity

The world has lost one of its most compassionate and visionary visual storytellers. Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian-born photographer whose haunting black-and-white images shaped global consciousness for decades, has died at the age of 81. Salgado’s work often provoked a powerful conflict of emotions. Perhaps more than any other documentary photographer, he produced technically flawless, mesmerising images of some of the world’s harshest realit…

Famed photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies at 81

Sebastiao Salgado, a globe-roving photographer inspired by the majesty of nature and the struggles of humanity, has died in Paris, aged 81. Salgado’s...

Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81

Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed by his and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado’s reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Having traveled to over 120 countries, Salgado was perhaps best known for his striking black and white photos documenting humanity’s profound inequalities, Indigenous communities across the Amazon rainforest, and astonishing natural land…

Sebastião Salgado, Brazil’s poet of dignity and decay

Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation

Independent media from around the world paid tribute to Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died on 23 May. He had shown "living Amazonia" through his images, in contrast to the ever more dramatic destruction of the planet's green lung.

For Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)

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