Salgado, who passed away at 81, captured over 500,000 images throughout his decades-long career that started at age 29. He documented significant global events and peoples across all continents. His later projects, including the Genesis project and Amazonia, focused on untouched environments and pre-modern communities. He also founded Instituto Terra to combat deforestation in Brazil after witnessing the Rwandan genocide. His work was celebrated in the documentary The Salt of the Earth, co-produced by Wim Wenders, highlighting the depth and breadth of his artistic commitments and humanitarian concerns.
"Salgado ... will be remembered as one of the world's most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition."
"After witnessing the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, he temporarily abandoned photography but founded ... Instituto Terra, planting hundreds of thousands of trees in Brazil."
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