Death of Sebastião Salgado is highlighted in the world press

The death of Sebastião Salgado, one of the greatest photographers in the world, was highlighted in the Italian and international press this Friday (23), with reports highlighting his "legendary" side as "one of the most important documentarians of his time", without forgetting his opinion on the cities of Milan and Rome.

The Italian public broadcaster Rai defined the Brazilian professional as "a photographer by vocation, a witness by choice, he narrated to the world in black and white, transforming suffering into memory and beauty into consciousness".

Meanwhile, the newspaper La Repubblica said that the "environmental photos" of the "great photographer" "changed the way we see the world".

In turn, Corriere della Sera, in addition to the news of his death, also republished an interview with Salgado conducted in March 2023. When answering a question about how he felt in Italy, the photographer said: "I'm very well in Italy. Especially here in Milan, a much calmer city than Rome."

As for the media in other countries, the American newspaper The New York Times recalled that the miner became "known for his striking images of nature and the human condition, being considered one of the most important documentary photographers of his time".

Referring to the "legendary" Salgado, the British BBC cited some of his most notable work on a global scale, such as "the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the burning of oil fields at the end of the Gulf War in 1991 and the famine in the Sahel region of Africa in 1984".

Citing the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which the Brazilian photographer was a member after having lived in Paris since the 1960s, the newspaper Le Monde explained that "Salgado conceived photography as a powerful language to try to establish better relations between humans and nature." The newspaper also recalled that he also had French citizenship.

In turn, the EFE agency highlighted that the miner's death occurs on the same day that the Spanish award "Princesa de Asturias de las Artes 2025" was granted to Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.

"They [Salgado and Iturbide] were the only ones to receive the honor in its 45-year history," explained EFE.

Salgado died this Friday at the age of 81 from leukemia, after contracting a specific type of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia.