Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures | Stories of Resistence

The Real News Podcast · Jun 6, 2025 · 6m

If a picture is worth a thousand words, his spoke novels. He was Steinbeck, Tolstoy, and Tolkien, all in one. His images capture the spirit of the poor and working classes. And they grip the viewer. Refusing to let your eyes peal from the picture before you. Pictures in black and white. Pictures that seem to have been painted by brush strokes, but which are as real as the camera equipment he used.

Sebastião Salgado was an artist. And he was a documentarian. Capturing the plight of the downtrodden, but also their soul. Their beauty.

Sebastião Salgado passed away on May 23, 2025, at the age of…