Vale: Sebastião Salgado

Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.

‘His style is marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally-charged scenarios. Impoverished communities were among his main interests.

Among his main works are the recent series “Amazonia;” “Workers” which shows manual labour around the world; and “Exodus” (also known as “Migrations” or “Sahel”) which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents.

Salgado’s life and work were portrayed in the documentary film “The Salt of the Earth” (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.’