# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sebastiao-salgado
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:42:16.901Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior was born 8 February 1944 in Brazil. He spent decades traveling more than 120 countries, building photographic projects that traced migration, manual work, and ecological ruin. His work appeared in press publications and books worldwide, mounted in touring exhibitions that moved through galleries on every continent. In 1982 he received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant; a decade later, foreign honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Royal Photographic Society gave him its Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in 1993. He became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and, in April 2016, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France. He died 23 May 2025.