Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
by Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro from Environment | The Guardian on (#6XGMF)
Brazilian photographer's work highlighted injustice and introduced rainforest to the world
The Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who is best known for his dramatic black-and-white photographs that highlighted injustice and introduced the Amazon rainforest the world, has died. He was 81.
His death was confirmed by the Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he founded with his wife of six decades, Lelia Wanick Salgado. In a post on Instagram, the institute described Salgado as much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time".
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