Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (February 8, 1944 – May 23, 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

Salgado was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France.

Salgado died on May 23, 2025 in Paris, France at the age of 81.

References

Other websites

Instituto Terra 
Amazonas Images Photo agency formed by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick.
Biography at The Guardian
'Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography' TED Talk  (17 minute video)
"Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action," New York Times, 2009
"Genesis by Sebastião Salgado: Exhibition Review", Huffington Post UK, 2013
"Timeless Tales by Sebastião Salgado", Light and Life Academy - Photography College, 2001
Sebastião Salgado at Encyclopædia Britannica

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Category:Brazilian photographers
Category:Brazilian journalists
Category:Photojournalists
Category:People from Minas Gerais