Article shared by Kul Gautam Very sad to learn about the passing of Sebastião Salgado, who served as UNICEF Special Representative starting in 2001. In announcing his appointment, I recall the then UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said, "We are very pleased to formalize our relationship with Sebastião Salgado, one of the world's great photographers. Working with Mr. Salgado, we hope to raise our visual communication to a new level and reach an even wider audience." Salgado did indeed help UNICEF to promote child rights issues in numerous ways, highlighting the plight of refugee and migrant children, and children impacted by war and conflicts. As Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the time, I was honored to be involved in the launch of his gripping picture book on The End of Polio: A Global Effort To End A Disease, an inspirational account of the global initiative to eliminate the scourge of polio, containing one hundred stunning black and white photographs th...