The photographer Sebastian Salgado died

Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado died at the age of 81. This was reported by the Associated Press with reference to the Terra Institute (Institute Terra), founded by Salgado and his wife.

The cause of death was leukemia, the statement of the photographer's family said.

“With the help of the lens of his camera, Sebastian tirelessly fought for a more fair, humane and environmentally friendly world. Being a photographer who constantly traveled around the world, he became infected with malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this disease grew into heavy leukemia, which ultimately claimed his life, ”it says.

Salgado was born in the city of Aimores in the Brazilian state of Minas-Zhirace in 1944. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of San Paulo. He decided to take a photograph with his professional activity in the 1970s, when he moved with his wife to France.

The main theme of his work was poverty, migration, humanitarian disasters and environmental crises. For his work, there were characters “black and white images, bright tonality and emotional saturation”, AP notes.

“Salgado's career led him to more than 130 countries in five decades, where he documented injustice with people and nature with the help of instantly recognizable black and white compositions formed by expressive lighting. His beautiful pictures of human suffering became the reason for criticism and the reason to call him a “aesthet of misfortune,” the publication of The Guardian says .

Among his main works is the series “Amazonia”, “workers”, showing the physical work of people around the world, and the “Exodus”, which Salgado captured people who are on the road, including refugees and residents of the slumber.

In 2014, Vim Wenders and the son of photographer Julian Salgado shot his life documentary “Salt of the Earth”, which received a special jury prize at the Cannes Festival.