Sebastiao Salgado, Followed Brazilian photographer, is dead

Sebastia Salgado, a famous Brazilian photographer, whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon Renforest and beyond that they won them in some top honors and made him a domestic name, died in Paris on Friday.He was 81 years old.His death was announced by Instituteo Tera, environmental non -profit organization, which he and his wife established in Brazil.His family cited leukemia as the reason, saying that Salgado developed a disease in 2010 after contracting a special type of malaria while working on a photography project in Indonesia.Salagado’s family said in a statement, “Through the lens of its camera, Sabstiao fought tirelessly for the more justified, human and ecological world.” Mostly working in black and white, Salgado received widespread praise at home and abroad with its striking images of natural world and human condition, often traveled to take photographs of poor and weak communities worldwide. Overall, he worked in more than 120 countries throughout his career.Salgado was particularly interested in the plight of workers and migrants, and spent decades by documenting nature and people in the Amazon Renforest. He captured some of his most famous images in 1986, when he took a picture of workers working in a gold mine in Northern Brazil. The photo essay was depicted on the cover of the New York Times magazine and strengthened the prestige of Salgado as one of the star photographers of his time.In the 1980s, Salgado also transferred audiences worldwide with a series of paintings, depicting famine in Ethiopia. That work recognized him worldwide and won some of the most prestigious awards of photography.In 1991, during assignments in Kuwait, Salgado took photographs of workers struggling to extinguish the oil-extinguished fire established by Saddam Hussein’s soldiers, an environmental disaster that came from Kuwait to define Iraq’s turbulent return. Kathy Ryan, a former photo director of the New York Times magazine, said, “The photos were beyond extraordinary who worked with him on the assignment.” It was one of the best photo essays ever.,On another notable assignment, Salgado documentation of dramatic scenes in 1981 after a bid for a failed murder on President Ronald Reagan. He took a picture of gunman, John Hinkle Junior, when he was taken to the ground. Ryan said, “He had a supernatural understanding of where important stories were.”Known for its intensive blue -eyed gaze and speaking, Salgado was remembered by his colleagues as the protector of documentation of human status, respecting those who took photographs. He was several times criticized for human pain and environmental destruction in a visually surprising beauty, but Salgado said that his way of catching people was not exploiting. “Why should the poor world be ugly than the rich world?” He asked in an interview with Guardian in 2024.“The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same.”During his career, Salgado’s work won some of the top prizes of photography, including two Leka Oscar Barnack Awards and several World Press Photo Awards. Sebastiao Rebero Salgado Junior was born on 8 February 1944, in the Brazilian kingdom of Means Grace, in Aimorus. An economist, Salgado, by training, discovered photography while working for the World Bank and traveling to Africa.