Sebastião Salgado’s images of the Sahel famine and his colossal project ‘Workers’ would be enough to make his reputation and justify all the awards he received. But there is more. A native of Brazil, trained as an economist, Sebastião Salgado showed a constant faith in mankind, a solidarity that never wavered nor flinched in the face of pain, an ability to analyse extreme situations, a fierce drive to affirm what he truly was, a humanist photographer.