Sebastião Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944 and began his career as a photographer in Paris in 1973. He worked with various agencies until 1994 when he founded "Amazonas images", an organization entirely dedicated to his work, with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. Thereafter, he began various long-term projects that have led to major exhibitions and publications conceived by Lélia, including "Workers" (1993), "Exodus" (2000), "Genesis" (2013), and "Amazônia" (2021). In 1998, the couple founded the Instituto Terra promoting reforestation and environmental education in the valley of the Rio Doce, a river traversing the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo. Today, thanks to the Instituto Terra, a forest of widely varied endemic flora and fauna is to be found there.