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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (8 February 1944 – 23 May 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He traveled in more than 120 countries for his photographic projects, which appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.

Salgado was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.<ref name="Youngs" /> He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982,<ref name="w-e-s-grant-salgado">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992;<ref name="amacad">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.<ref name="rps">Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Award Accessed 13 August 2012</ref> He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Sebastião Salgado was born on 8 February 1944,<ref name="theguardian-dob">Template:Cite news</ref> in Aimorés, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.<ref name="International Center of Photography 2019" /> After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado trained as an economist, earning a BA degree from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), a master's degree from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD from University of Paris.<ref name="International Center of Photography 2019">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization and often traveled to Africa on missions for the World Bank.<ref name=":0" />

PhotographyEdit

It was on his travels to Africa that Salgado first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979, he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> His work resides in Paris.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Salgado worked on long-term, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis. The aforemetioned three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada, taken between 1986 and 1989.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on Genesis, aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity's rediscovery of itself in nature.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In September and October 2007, Salgado displayed his photographs of coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Salgado photographed the landscape and people of the Amazon rainforest (Amazônia) in Brazil.<ref name="theguardian-jones">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Salgado's work has been described by Andrei Netto of The Guardian as an "instantly recognisable combination of black-and-white composition and dramatic lighting".<ref name="theguardian-dob" />

Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and produced by Lélia Wanick Salgado.<ref name="Guardian 16 July 2015">Template:Cite news</ref>

EnvironmentalismEdit

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Reforestation of Fazenda Bulcão, or Bulcão Farm, by Instituto Terra

Together, Lélia and Sebastião worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. In 1998, they succeeded in turning Template:Convert into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The institute is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation and environmental education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life and deathEdit

Salgado was married to Lélia Wanick Salgado and had two children, including Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.<ref name="theguardian-2025">Template:Cite news</ref>

On a 2010 trip to Indonesian New Guinea, Salgado contracted falciparum malaria, which permanently impaired his bone-marrow function.<ref name="piaui">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Salgado died on 23 May 2025 in Paris.<ref name="b644">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His death was announced by Instituto Terra on the following day.<ref name="theguardian-2025"/><ref name="Youngs">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AwardsEdit

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  • 1992: Oskar Barnack Award<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2007: M2-El Mundo People's Choice Award for best exhibition a PhotoEspaña, for Africa<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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HonoursEdit

PublicationsEdit

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Salgado (left) gives Brazilian president Lula da Silva his new book in 2006, during Lula's first presidency.

FilmographyEdit

ExhibitionsEdit

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View of Salgado's Genesis exhibition in 2014

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014–15;<ref name="siteofspecialthings.com">Template:Cite news</ref> Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> CaixaForum Palma, Palma, Spain, 2015;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin, 2015; Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2015; Kunstfoyer, Munich, Germany, 2015–16; Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="siteofspecialthings.com"/>

  • Déclaration, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 2018–19<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Science Museum, London, 2021–22;<ref name="scienceandindustrymuseum-2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2022<ref name="scienceandindustrymuseum-2021"/> MAXXI, Rome, 2021–22;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, 2022–23;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, 2021–22;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> California Science Center, Los Angeles, 2022,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, 2023–24.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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