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‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures
The Brazilian photographer has died at 81, leaving behind a career filled with striking images taken around the world. ‘Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelesslyfought for a more just, humane and ecological world,’ a statement from his family read.
Friday 23 May 2025
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| Salgado in Egypt in 1977. |
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One early morning in 1995, after a night of walking, refugees from Tigray hide under the trees to avoid the surveillance of Ethiopian airplanes. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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The Serra Pelada mine in Para, Brazil, in 1986: a muddy manmade hole the size of a football field, where tens of thousands of men come to look for gold. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Kuwait oil fields, taken in 1991. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/ |
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Thousands of rural workers, who had occupied the Cuiabá farm in north-east Brazil with their families for months, are told that the land is finally theirs, in a 1996 photograph. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Salgado in São Paulo, Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Fridman |
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A marine iguana is captured on Rábida Island in the Galápagos in 2004 trying to regulate its body temperature by lying flat and exposing as much body area to the sun as possible. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Xingu Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil, taken in 2005. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Ice formations on the Antarctic peninsula, captured in 2005. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Salgado and his assistant photographing the Grey Glacier in Torres Del Paine national park, Chile, in 2007. Photograph: Leon Werdinger |
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Chinstrap penguins in the South Sandwich Islands, 2009. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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The Juruá River in Brazil, in 2009. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Yanomami people, from the village of Maturaca, look at the sacred Yaripo, or Pico da Neblina, mountain, the highest in Brazil, in 2014. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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Yara Asháninka, the eldest daughter of Wewito Piyãko and Auzelina Asháninka, in the Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous territory in 2016. The small paint designs on her face indicate that she is not yet engaged. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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| The rain is so intense in Serra do Divisor National Park that it looks like an atomic mushroom cloud. Acre state, northwestern Brazil, 2016. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado |
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