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Sebastião Salgado
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado, Sebasuchan Sarugado, Sebastiao Salgado, Sebastio Salgado, Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
OverviewAI-generated
Sebastião Salgado was a person active from 1967 to 1997, with a work period spanning from 1973 to 2025. Born on February 8, 1944, he died on May 23, 2025. His professional output included thirty-two works, with notable titles including *Images d'entreprises*, *Africa*, *India*, *México*, *Workers*, and *Kawait*.
Salgado was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His official website is associated with the Amazonas Images project.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Died
- 2025
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Images d'entreprises
- Africa
- India, México
- Workers
- Kawait
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 21
- Total plays
- 22
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sebasti%C3%A3o+Salgado">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,446x
- The<i>Gaia</i>mission
· 2016 · cited 6,410x
- The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*
· 2022 · cited 4,945x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x
- <i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3
· 2021 · cited 3,746x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior , ( 1944-02-08 ) 8 February 1944, Aimorés , Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Died
- 23 May 2025 (2025-05-23) (aged 81), Paris , France
- Occupation
- Social documentary photographer
- Spouse
- Lélia Wanick Salgado
- Children
- 2, including Juliano Ribeiro
- Website
- institutoterra .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sebastião
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Minas Gerais
- Place of death
- Paris
- Spouse
- Lélia Wanick Salgado
- Occupation
- economist
- Position held
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Educated at
- Federal University of Espírito Santo
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Religion
- Christianity
- Field of work
- nature reserve
- Official website
- www.amazonasimages.com
- Image
- Sebastião Salgado (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Paris
Show 14 more facts
- name in native language
- Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior
- date of death
- 2025-05-23
- cause of death
- leukemia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Sebastião Salgado
- date of birth
- 1944-02-08
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Commons gallery
- Sebastião Salgado
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- floruit
- 1997-01-01
- start of work period
- 1973-01-01
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
- P10632
- Sebastião Salgado
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Encyclopedic overview
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (8 February 1944 – 23 May 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Salgado traveled in more than 120 countries for his photographic projects, which appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sebastião Salgado” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.