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Artist of the Month

Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, 1944-2025)

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photojournalist whose black-and-white prints capture natural environments and the people who inhabit them. He uses his images as a means of promoting preservation, as is the focus of his project Genesis (2004–2011). Salgado’s documentation of unblemished landscapes, wildlife, and indigenous communities demonstrate how urgently the need is to protect these subjects. Born in Aimorés, Brazil, the artist trained as an economist before turning to photography in 1973. After working at prominent agencies such as Sygma, Gamma, and the famed Magnum Photos, he formed his own agency Amazonas in 1994 alongside his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado. In 2007, his photo book Sebastião Salgado: Africa, a collection of 30 years of his work capturing the African continent and its people, was released to critical acclaim. in 2010, on a trip to Indonesian New Guinea, Salgado contracted falciparum malaria, which permanently impaired his bone-marrow function. Salgado died in Paris in May 2025, at the age of 81.

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Stefan Sagmeister

Designer (In Conversation series, 2021)

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer based in New York. His eye-catching and provocative designs are imprinted in popular culture in the form of album art for many music artists, including Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, Pat Metheny, and Talking Heads.

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