Sebastião Salgado obituary

One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of lifeThe Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has died aged 81, produced striking works of immense scale and scope that recorded globally significant issues for more than half a century. Variously described as working in a humanitarian or documentary tradition, he adapted both to his own genre.Subjects such as child labour and indigenous religious cultures were recontextualised