UEPG - 2026-1 - Questão 58

TEXTBF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER SEBASTIAO SALGADO DIES AT 81 SEBASTIAO SALGADO REGARDED AS ONE OF THE WORLD S GREATEST DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHERS HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 81 THE BRAZIL BORN PHOTOGRAPHER WAS KNOWN FOR HIS DRAMATIC AND UNFLINCHING BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES OF HARDSHIP CONFLICT AND NATURAL BEAUTY CAPTURED IN 130 COUNTRIES OVER 55 YEARS HIS HARD HITTING PHOTOS CHRONICLED MAJOR GLOBAL EVENTS SUCH AS THE RWANDA GENOCIDE IN 1994 HIS LENS REVEALED THE WORLD AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS HIS LIFE THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION SAID A STATEMENT FROM INSTITUTO TERRA THE ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATION HE FOUNDED WITH HIS WIFE LELIA WANICK SALGADO SOME OF HIS MOST STRIKING PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN HIS HOME COUNTRY INCLUDING EPIC PHOTOS OF THOUSANDS OF DESPERATE FIGURES WORKING IN OPEN CAST GOLD MINES AND STRIKING IMAGES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMAZON SALGADO S FINAL MAJOR PROJECT AMAZONIA SPOTLIGHTED THE RAINFOREST S BEAUTY AND FRAGILITY A LIFELONG ADVOCATE FOR THE AMAZON S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SALGADO DOCUMENTED THE DAILY LIVES OF A DOZEN OF THE TRIBES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE RAINFOREST HE SPENT SEVEN YEARS ON AN AMBITIOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY EXPLORING THE REMOTE REACHES OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST AND DOCUMENTING ITS INHABITANTS THE PROJECT CULMINATED IN AN EXHIBITION SHOWCASING OVER 200 BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES OFFERING A POIGNANT GLIMPSE INTO THE REGION S LANDSCAPES AND COMMUNITIES THE AMAZONIA EXHIBITION WAS DISPLAYED AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM IN LONDON AND AT THE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY MUSEUM IN MANCHESTER IN 2021 AND 2022 SOMETIMES I ASK MYSELF SEBASTIAO WAS IT REALLY YOU THAT WENT TO ALL THESE PLACES HE SAID TO AN INTERVIEWER LAST YEAR WAS IT REALLY ME THAT SPENT YEARS TRAVELLING TO 130 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WHO WENT DEEP INSIDE THE FORESTS INTO OIL FIELDS AND MINES BOY IT REALLY IS ME WHO DID THIS I M PROBABLY ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO S CREATED THE MOST WORK IN THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY BORN IN 1944 SALGADO LEFT A CAREER IN ECONOMICS TO START AS A PHOTOGRAPHER IN 1973 HE WORKED ON INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS FOR A VARIETY OF PHOTOGRAPHY AGENCIES BEFORE FORMING HIS OWN AMAZONAS IMAGES WITH LELIA IN 1994 HE RECEIVED THE SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY IN 2024 OTHER ACCOLADES INCLUDED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD AND RECOGNITION AS A UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR THROUGH THE INSTITUTO TERRA SALGADO AND LELIA ALSO RESTORED HIS FATHER S FARM IN BRAZIL TO THRIVING RAINFOREST PLANTING MORE THAN THREE MILLION TREES THE INSTITUTE S STATEMENT ADDED SEBASTIAO WAS MUCH MORE THAN ONE OF THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF OUR TIME ALONGSIDE HIS LIFE PARTNER LELIA DELUIZ WANICK SALGADO HE SOWED HOPE WHERE THERE WAS DEVASTATION AND BROUGHT TO LIFE THE BELIEF THAT ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION IS ALSO A PROFOUND ACT OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY ADAPTADO DE YOUNGS IAN LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER SEBASTIAO SALGADO DIES AT 81 BBC 23 05 2025 DISPONIVEL EM URL HTTPS WWW BBC COM NEWS ARTICLES CX2EXYM29PDO ACESSO EM 05 06 2025 SOBRE O QUE O AUTOR NOS INFORMA ACERCA DA VIDA DE SEBASTIAO SALGADO ASSINALE O QUE FOR CORRETO BEGIN ENUMERATE LEFTMARGIN LABELSEP 0 5EM ITEM 01 ELE INICIOU SUA CARREIRA COMO FOTOGRAFO EM 1973 MAS SOMENTE EM 1994 FUNDOU A AGENCIA DE FOTOGRAFIA AMAZONAS IMAGES COM SUA ESPOSA LELIA ITEM 02 ELE DEDICOU MUITO DE SEU TRABALHO A DOCUMENTAR A VIDA DOS POVOS INDIGENAS DA AMAZONIA ITEM 04 AS FOTOGRAFIAS DE SALGADO SAO DESCRITAS COMO HARD HITTING IMPACTANTES CONTUNDENTES INDICANDO A FORCA E A SERIEDADE DOS TEMAS QUE ELE ABORDAVA ITEM 08 ANTES DE SE DEDICAR INTEGRALMENTE A FOTOGRAFIA SALGADO TINHA UMA CARREIRA NA AREA DE ECONOMIA END ENUMERATE