the Brazilian photographer Sebastião SalgadoAnd, who was famous for its black and white dramatic images that shed light on injustice and presented the Amazon rain forests in the world. It was 81.
His death was confirmed by the Institute, Terra, the restoration of the non -profit environment that he founded with his six -decade wife, Lilia and Anik Saljado. In a post on Instagram, the Institute described Salgado as “more than one of the greatest photographers of our time.”
His family said in a statement that Saljado had developed severe leukemia due to the complications of malaria that contracted in Indonesia in 2010.
“I know that I will not live for a longer period,” said Sadado The guardian in an interview last year. “But I don’t want to live longer. I have lived a lot and I saw many things.”
Siljado was born in Minas Gerais countryside, BrazilHe studied economics at Sao Paulo. His left-wing sympathy for him to move to Paris during the political repression of the Brazilian military dictatorship 1964-1985. There was photography in the 1970s, as it witnessed an immediate rise to stardom.
His heavy career transmitted him to more than 130 countries over five decades, where human injustice and natural environments in the world documented through the well -known black and white structures that are formed by expressive lighting. His beautiful footage of human suffering led to his criticism for being a “fame of misery”.
“Why should the poor world be more ugly than the rich world?
With its amazing natural scenery, Salando drew attention to the destruction of the planet. One of his most famous pictures, which was taken in 1986, seized the illegal gold miners at the Serra Pelda mine that resembles Anthill in the Amazon.
In his last huge project, Amazônia (2021)- Huge exhibition Of more than 200 pictures are still touring the world, currently displayed in Brussels – the lush landscape in the Amazon, the wrong rivers and the diverse indigenous peoples, drew attention to the wealth of rainforests as it faces an increasing threat to destruction of human activities and climatic belts.
Prize -winning photographer Putting his environmental fears into practiceWork to restore the original Atlantic Forest at the Family Far in Minas Gerais. The institute said, “The Terra Institute has been repeated more than 2000 hectares of land and has produced nearly 7 million seedlings since its foundation in 1998,” the institute said.
Although Salagado has retracted photography, he continued to work on many projects, including a special show for COP30, which will be held in Belém on the edge of the Amazon in November.
Brazil’s president, Louise Ensio Lula da Silva, noticed a minute of silence when he learned of the death of Saljado during an event in Brazilia on Friday. Lola said in a statement that the photographer’s work was “a warning to the conscience of all humanity.” “Sadado did not only use his eyes and camera to photograph people: he also used the fullness of his soul and heart.”
It was described by the French Academy of Fine Arts, which Sadado was a member of it, as a “great witness to the human condition and the planet’s condition.”
Saljado was in the process of editing and coordinating his huge work group, an archive of more than 500,000 pictures, for sale when he died.
He survived his wife, Laila, and has Juliano and Rodrigo, and his grandchildren Flevio and Nara.
