Celebrated French-Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado dies aged 81 • FRANCE 24 English

[Applause] He was known for his award-winning images of nature, but also for his humanity. Brazilian photographer Sebastia Salgado spent five decades chronicling the many corners of planet Earth, from natural wonders to human catastrophes. Rwanda, Guatemala, Indonesia, Bangladesh. He would go anywhere where the story took him, documenting famine, war, exodus, exploitation, and other tragedies. In a 2017 interview with France 24, he said his pictures strike a deep personal chord. My pictures are my way of life. My pictures in what I believe, what I feel, what I believe that is nice, what I have a big despair. But he also celebrated the planet’s immense beauty and constantly warned through his lens nature’s fragility in the face of climate change. That we cannot destroy more. We destroyed too much. These pictures will be not archaeology will be just a cross-section of these parts of the planet that to be stay forever. The 81-year-old economist turned photographer hailed from rural Brazil but spent most of his life in Paris holding French nationality. His photographs marked by his trademark rich black and white tonality is recognized by a long list of prestigious prizes throughout his career. He also served as a protagonist of filmmaker Wim Wender’s Oscar nominated documentary The Salt of the Earth about the photographers’s trips to remote destinations such as the Arctic Circle and Papa New Guinea. The French Academy of Fine Arts, of which Salgado was a member, remembers him as a great witness to the human condition and the state of the planet, immortalized in his photographs.

Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado, who died on May 23, spent five decades chronicling famine, war, exodus, exploitation and other tragedies of the so-called Third World with the empathy. His work, which was regulary published in prestigious magazines and exhibited in the museums of world capitals, also documented the planet’s immense beauty, capturing far-flung natural wonders.
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3 comments

  1. Interesting movie, The Salt of the Earth, where he describes how his interest shifted from humanitarian to nature…

  2. Sebastiao had such an unfiltered eye…nothing got in his way…he understood, you don't try to destroy what Spirit has given…unfortunately, 87% of humanity…don't get that….I'm NY Toms very British/Brazilian future wife MD

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