Sebastião Salgado. Glaciers

Almost a year after his passing, Fort Bard honours the work of the acclaimed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado with an exhibition dedicated to his powerful images of the world’s most significant glaciers. Renowned for his black and white photography, in recent years Salgado turned his attention to documenting on of the most evocative yet endangered environments on Earth: the realm of permanent snow and ice.

Curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado and produced in collaboration with Contrasto, Glaciers brings together 54 large-format photographs, alongside a tribute to the photographer through a video and extensive biographical material. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with Salgado’s artistic vision while also addressing one of the defining challenges of our time – climate change, a theme to which Fort Bard has long been committed through its scientific outreach programmes.

Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) was far more than a photographer: he was an unrelenting witness to the contemporary world. Through a deeply humanist and engaged perspective, he documented profound social and economic transformations across the globe.

photo. 2005 © Sebastião Salgado