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Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
Philip Hoelzel
Illustrator: Renato Alarcão
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/S & S
ISBN: 978-1-5344-7765-0
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Picture book for older readers, Photographers, photographers—Brazil, environment, conservation, animal and environmental protection
The life and work of the award-winning Brazilian photojournalist, humanitarian, and environmental activist, are chronicled through text and representational watercolor and pencil illustrations. Map. Author's note. Back matter.