Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado (born February 8, 1944, Aimorés, Brazil—died May 23, 2025, Paris, France) was a Brazilian photojournalist whose dramatic black-and-white works powerfully express the beauty and destruction of the planet, the diversity of humanity, and the suffering of the impoverished. Salgado was the only son of a cattle rancher who wanted him to become a lawyer. Instead, he studied economics at São Paulo University, earning a master’s degree in 1968. While working as an economist...