Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)
May 23, 2025 12:28 PM Subscribe
Salgado documented labor in gold mines, migrants and migration, and deforestation From the obit: “How many times in my life have I put my camera to the side and sat down to cry? Sometimes it was too dramatic, and I was alone. That’s the power of the photographer; to be able to be there,” Salgado said. “If a photographer is not there, there’s no image. We need to be there. We expose ourselves a lot. And that is why it is such an immense privilege.”
Salgado and his wife, Léila, transformed their former farm landscape into a reforestation project through their Instituto Terra.
His photographic work was intimate, while also showing human endeavor at a massive scale, and is notable for the richness of its tones. I have seen his photo prints in person and they are very beautiful.
Salgado and his wife, Léila, transformed their former farm landscape into a reforestation project through their Instituto Terra.
His photographic work was intimate, while also showing human endeavor at a massive scale, and is notable for the richness of its tones. I have seen his photo prints in person and they are very beautiful.
Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer
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Morre Sebastião Salgado, o brasileiro que se tornou ícone da fotografia mundial, aos 81 anos
posted by chavenet at 12:35 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]
Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025), incansável observador da Terra e do que fizemos dela
Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
Morre Sebastião Salgado, o brasileiro que se tornou ícone da fotografia mundial, aos 81 anos
posted by chavenet at 12:35 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]
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An amazing artist and spokesman for most of us, who need the world to be safe to breathe in.
posted by mumimor at 12:39 PM on May 23
An amazing artist and spokesman for most of us, who need the world to be safe to breathe in.
posted by mumimor at 12:39 PM on May 23
posted by Lemkin at 12:31 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]