Sebastião Salgado: Documenting Humanity Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist who was known for his black-and-white images that focus on human labor, migration, poverty and the natural world. He studied economics before turning to photography in the early 1970s and he worked in more than 120 countries. He founded the agency Amazonas Images in 1994 with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado. He created major long-term projects such as Workers,

Sebastião Salgado : Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado (1944–2025) was a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist, born in Aimorés, Brazil. Originally trained as an economist, he turned to photography in the 1970s and dedicated his career to long-term projects that highlight human struggle, migration, poverty, and the dignity of workers. His monumental series, such as Workers, Other Americas, Sahel, Terra, and Genesis, are celebrated for their powerful black-and-white aesthetic and human de