Jane Goodall
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Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, 2016 · Agência Brasil · CC BY 3.0 Brazil
Trait Constellation
Key Achievements
Trained and worked as an economist, including doctoral-level work for the International Coffee Organization, before abandoning that career entirely in his early thirties to become a photographer.
Co-founded Instituto Terra with his wife, Lelia Wanick Salgado, restoring his family's severely degraded former cattle ranch in Minas Gerais, Brazil back to viable Atlantic Forest by planting millions of trees over more than two decades.
Moments That Reveal Them
After photographing the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, experienced a severe personal crisis of purpose serious enough that he stepped back from photography entirely -- and redirected that same underlying motivation into founding Instituto Terra with his wife.
Redirecting a documented crisis of purpose into a specific new sustained project, rather than simply resuming or abandoning his prior work, is the basis for the profile's impact_motivation score. Impact Motivation
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Sources
- Sebastiao Salgado
- The Salt of the Earth (2014 documentary, dir. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders) -- extensive first-person, on-camera interview material
- Instituto Terra -- the reforestation institution he co-founded with his wife Lelia Wanick Salgado on his family's former cattle ranch in Minas Gerais, Brazil
- CNN, Washington Post, and PBS obituary coverage confirming his death on 23 May 2025 in Paris, age 81