New Scientist: Sebastião Salgado’s stunning shots of the world’s icy regions
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Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
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culture · Brazilian photographer (1944–2025) · photojournalist · painter · photographer · environmentalist · economist · also Sebastião Salgado, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado, Sebasuchan Sarugado, Sebastiao Salgado, Sebastio Salgado, Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado
Born 8 February 1944 · Died 23 May 2025 · Q358158
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 12 entries
Yahoo: Final reckoning: Sebastião Salgado's posthumous photographic retrospective opens in Germany
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The Real News Network: Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures
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The Conversation: Sebastião Salgado: a photographer of great humanity
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Hyperallergic: Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
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The Washington Post: Sebastião Salgado, photographer of human misery and dignity, dies at 81
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Democracy Now: Sebastião Salgado, Renowned Photographer Who Captivated with His Photos, Dies at 81
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Yahoo: Sebastião Salgado, photographer who cast an unflinching gaze on oppression and environmental destruction
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WSLS 10: Ceremony honors late photographer Sebastião Salgado
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Los Angeles Times: Sebastião Salgado, photographer who documented the beauty and cruelty of life, dies at 81
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The Tico Times: Brazilian Photographer Sebastião Salgado Dies at 81
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Died 2025-05-23.
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Fotografiska Shanghai presented Retrospective, the first major posthumous retrospective of Sebastião Salgado, bringing together works from across his career including Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genes
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2022· 1 entry
Published “The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 4,997 times.
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2021· 3 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2021).
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Awarded Crystal Award (2021).
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Published “<i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 3,764 times.
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2020· 2 entries
Published “The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer” in Nature — cited 3,346 times.
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Published “Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes” in Nature — cited 2,835 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2019).
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Published “Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial” in The Lancet — cited 2,671 times.
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2018· 3 entries
Won: Monaco (2018).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit (2018).
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Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 7,462 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Won: France (2016).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2016).
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Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,438 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Won Cherry Kearton Medal and Award (2015).
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Published “The evaluation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer: recommendations by an International TILs Working Group 2014” in Annals of Oncology — cited 2,691 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Won: France (2014).
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2004· 2 entries
Won: Brazil (2004).
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Awarded Lucie Award (2004).
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (1998).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (1998).
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Awarded Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography (1998).
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Succeeded in turning 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra
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1994· 1 entry
And with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Royal Photographic Society Award (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Oskar Barnack Award (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Hasselblad Award (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Dr. Erich Salomon Prize (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Oskar Barnack Award (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992; and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993
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1979· 1 entry
Joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos
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1973· 1 entry
Working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-02-08.
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