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Sebastião Salgado, master of black and white photography, dies at the age of 81
The Brazilian documented many of the contemporary challenges with his photography.
More than a hundred countries creating photographic projects and many of them have appeared in numerous publications and books. Sebastiâo Salgado died on May 23 in Paris, as confirmed by the Terra Institute, which he created together with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, due to leukemia - a disease as a sequel to malaria that he contracted decades ago.
Sebastião Salgado elevated photojournalism to the category of art and is one of the great masters of the black and white snapshot throughout his career. He was born in the small town of Aimores, in the coffee and mining state of Minas Gerais and later focused on injustices that marked the modern world and his work dealt with the lives of the marginalized.
Exposició de Sebastião Salgado Genesis (2017) al PAN a Nàpols
Up to forty-eight expeditions through the Amazon to capture moments of the threatened indigenous peoples of Brazil. Salgado began with photography, with stopping the moment with the lens, when he worked as an economist, using a Leica during business trips to Africa. And from there to become a freelance photographer, with a major moment, since in 1981 he witnessed the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Salgado captured that moment in Washington and the images were published all over the world.
His last major project was Amazonia where he portrayed in all its splendor that area that he knew perfectly with the aim of alerting the world to its extreme fragility. His exhibitions gave rise to reflections, Barcelona was also part of this exhibition tour, they traveled all over the world. In 1998 Salgado received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts and was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of France. Awards for an always empathetic look with those who suffer the most. A tireless traveler, in his extensive career Salgado traveled the planet with special attention to the global south, where he documented famines, wars, labor exploitation, migratory journeys...
His choice to portray the world's dispossessed, he said, was not ideological, but autobiographical: "I am a Third World person. I know Africa like the lines on my hand; after all, 150 million years ago, Africa and South America were one."
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