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Legendary photographer Sebasti?o Salgado dies at 8124 May 2025ShareSaveIan YoungsCulture reporter andEmma LynchPicture editorShareSaveAFP/Getty ImagesSebasti?o Salgado,resultado da lotofácil do dia 23/12/2016 regarded as one of the world's greatest documentary photographers, has died at the age of 81.The Brazil-born photographer was known for his dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty, captured in 130 countries over 55 years.His hard-hitting photos chronicled major global events such as the Rwanda genocide in 1994, burning oilfields at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, and the famine in the Sahel region of Africa in 1984."His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, the power of transformative action," said a statement from Instituto Terra, the environmental organisation he founded with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado.Getty ImagesSalgado dedicated himself to photographing nature and indigenous life in his later yearsSome of his most striking pictures were taken in his home country, including epic photos of thousands of desperate figures working in open-cast gold mines and striking images of the indigenous people of the Amazon.Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid tribute, describing Salgado as "one of the best... photographers the world has given us".Salgado's final major project, Amaz?nia, spotlighted the rainforest's beauty and fragility.Philip Reynaers/Photonews/Getty ImagesA lifelong advocate for the Amazon's indigenous people, Salgado documented the daily lives of a dozen of the tribes scattered throughout the rainforest - from hunting and fishing expeditions, to dances and rituals.He spent seven years on an ambitious photographic journey, exploring the remote reaches of the Amazon rainforest and documenting its inhabitants.The project culminated in an exhibition showcasing over 200 black-and-white images, offering a poignant glimpse into the region's landscapes and communities.The Amaz?nia exhibition was displayed at the Science Museum in London and the the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester in 2021 and 2022.BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images"Sometimes I ask myself, "Sebasti?o, was it really you that went to all these places?"' he said to an interviewer last year."Was it really me that spent years travelling to 130 different countries, who went deep inside the forests, into oil fields and mines?"Boy, it really is me who did this. I'm probably one of the photographers who's created the most work in the history of photography."YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)Salgado and his wife Lelia Wanick Salgado, walk around his exhibition Genesis on display in Rio de Janeiro's Botanic GardenBorn in 1944, Salgado left a career in economics to start as a photographer in 1973.He worked on international assignments for a variety of photography agencies before forming his own, Amazonas Images, with Lélia in 1994.He received the Sony World Photography Awards' Outstanding Contribution to Photography in 2024.Other accolades included the Prince of Asturias Award and recognition as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador.ALESSANDRO DI MARCO/EPA-EFEA visitor views images from Genesis - a collection of photographic essays that look at the landscape, wildlife and human communities Through the Instituto Terra, Salgado and Lélia also restored his father's farm in Brazil to thriving rainforest by planting more than three million trees.The institute's statement added: "Sebasti?o was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time."Alongside his life partner, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, he sowed hope where there was devastation and brought to life the belief that environmental restoration is also a profound act of love for humanity."Amazon: The forest stretching to infinityPhotographyArt
