Sebastião Salgado
Photographer died at the age of 81
Sebastião Salgado is dead. The well -known photographer and environmentalist died at the age of 81.
The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) is dead. Salgado died on May 23 at the age of 81. Among other things, Salgado was known for startling photos of refugees, pictures from a gold mine in Serra Pelada and for environmental shots. Salgado, born in the municipality of Aimorés in the state of Minas Gerais, was also very committed as an environmentalist.
“Restoration of the environment also a profound act of love”
The nature conservation organization “Instituto Terra” founded “with great grief” by him and his partner Lélia Wanick Salgado. He was “much more than just one of the greatest photographers of our time”. He had “sown hope where devastation was and brought the conviction to life that the restoration of the environment is also a profound act of love for humanity”.
“People tend to consider themselves only important. But other beings, ants, termites or turtles are just as important. We are all part of life together on this planet. Animals, plants, minerals, all part of a large system,” said Salgado in 2018 in.
The documentary “The Salt of the Earth” from 2014 deals with Salgado’s work and life. Directed by the documentary nominated for an Oscar, the German director Wim Wenders (79) and Juliano Ribeirao Salgado, a son of the photographer.
During his long work, Salgado was awarded several prizes – including the Peace Prize of German Book Trade in 2019. A “picture artist who calls for social justice and peace with his photographs and gives urgency to the debate about nature and climate protection that led the global debate”. He gives us the chance to understand the earth as what it is: as a habitat that does not belong to us alone and that it is absolutely necessary to preserve. “
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Source: Stern
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