Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, recognized for his award-winning photos of nature and humanity, has died at age 81
SAO PAULO — Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, recognized for his award-winning photos of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.
Instituto Terra, which was based by him and his spouse, confirmed the data Friday, however didn’t present extra particulars on the circumstances of Salgado’s demise or the place it occurred.
“Sebastião was greater than among the finest photographers of our time,” Instituto Terra mentioned in a press release. “His lense revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (introduced) the facility of transformative motion.”
Salgado’s life and work had been portrayed within the documentary movie “The Salt of the Earth” (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
Salgado lived in Paris for a few years and began to totally dedicate his time to pictures in 1973, years after his financial system diploma.
His type is marked by black-and-white imagery, wealthy tonality, and emotionally-charged eventualities. Impoverished communities had been amongst his essential pursuits.
Amongst his essential works are the latest collection “Amazonia;” “Employees” which exhibits handbook labor around the globe; and “Exodus” (often known as “Migrations” or “Sahel”) which paperwork folks in transit, together with refugees and slum residents.
Salgado and his spouse, Lélia Wanick Salgado, based Amazonas Photographs, an company that completely handles his work.