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Morreu nesta sexta-feira (23/5), aos 81 anos, Sebastião Salgado, um dos maiores fotógrafos da história, reconhecido internacionalmente por seu trabalho de fotojornalismo que revelou, com sensibilidade e rigor, a dura realidade de populações em situação de vulnerabilidade ao redor do mundo.
A trajetória de Sebastião Salgado também foi eternizada no cinema. Em 2015, sua vida e carreira foram retratadas no documentário O Sal da Terra, dirigido por seu filho, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, e pelo cineasta alemão Wim Wenders.
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SANTA COLOMA DE GRAMENET, BARCEL, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 30: Photographer Sebastião Salgado during the award ceremony for the 1st Joan Guerrero Prize, at the Besos River Park, on 30 November, 2024 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado received the 1st Joan Guerrero Award during a posthumous tribute to the Catalan photographer, who died in April. The event was held as part of the acts of recognition to Guerrero, organized by Catalunya Mirades Solidaries together with the Diputacio de Barcelona, the City Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and MNAC. (Photo By Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via Getty Images)
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MADRID, SPAIN – 2023/09/12: Photographer Sebastiao Salgado during the inauguration of the exhibition AMAZONIA in Fernan Gomez Centro Cultural de la Villa of Madrid. Sebastiao Salgado undertook a photographic and human journey for seven years that led him to discover the most remote areas of the Amazon jungle and its inhabitants, showing more than 200 black and white photographs in the exhibition. (Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 19: Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado stands for a photo at a press preview of his exhibit Amazônia at the California Science Center on October 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The 13,000 square-foot immersive exhibit, designed by his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, features 200 large-scale photographs and video montages taken over seven years of the Amazon rainforest, remote Indigenous tribes, and the threat deforestation poses to their survival. Salgado says, ‘My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years’ time this exhibition will not resemble a record of a lost world.’ The exhibit is making its North American debut on October 21st and is supported by the Annenberg Foundation. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 19: Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado stands for a photo at a press preview of his exhibit Amazônia at the California Science Center on October 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The 13,000 square-foot immersive exhibit, designed by his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, features 200 large-scale photographs and video montages taken over seven years of the Amazon rainforest, remote Indigenous tribes, and the threat deforestation poses to their survival. Salgado says, ‘My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years’ time this exhibition will not resemble a record of a lost world.’ The exhibit is making its North American debut on October 21st and is supported by the Annenberg Foundation. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado attends the award ceremony with the Seal of the City on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition Amazonia at Palazzo Marino on March 02, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Em uma entrevista, o fotógrafo contou como foi a experiência de se ver diante das câmeras, depois de uma vida inteira atrás delas.
“Não tinha sentido para mim o que eles estavam fazendo. Terminaram toda a parte das imagens e o Juliano foi embora para Berlim para montar o filme com o Win e, quando eles vieram de Berlim com o filme montado, nós tivemos a maior surpresa: era um filme bom! Tinha uma lógica, tinha um poder aquelas imagens. Hoje, quando eu vejo um filme, eu vejo com um grande respeito porque é um grande trabalho”, declarou Salgado.
