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Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

Susanna Barla
4 July 2025
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Sebastião Salgado at his exhibition Amazônia at the Science Museum in London in 2021. The exhibition included more than 200 of his photographs of the Indigenous communities and landscapes of the Brazilian rainforest

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