One year after the death of Sebastião Salgado, the Bard Fort is dedicating a major exhibition to him that addresses one of the most urgent issues of our time: the fragility of glaciers and the climate crisis.
From 24 April to 27 September 2026, the exhibition Glaciers collects 54 large format photographs dedicated to the perennial snows of the most remote places on the planet. Curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado and produced in collaboration with Contrasto, the exhibition is also a human and artistic homage to one of the greatest contemporary photographers.
Famous for his intense and monumental black and white, Salgado has chronicled mines, migrations, wars, labor exploitation and indigenous communities for decades. In recent years, however, he had increasingly turned his gaze towards uncontaminated nature and threatened ecosystems, transforming photography into a form of environmental testimony.
Glaciers thus become much more than an aesthetic subject: in his images they take on the value of living archives of the planet, grandiose but vulnerable landscapes that are disappearing today due to global warming.
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The exhibition at the Forte di Bard also retraces the more profoundly ecological side of Salgado’s work.
Together with his wife Lélia Wanick, the photographer had in fact founded Instituto Terra in Brazil, the reforestation project that brought thousands of hectares devastated by deforestation back to life through the planting of millions of trees. A concrete commitment that transformed his artistic work into environmental action.
Alongside the photographs, the exhibition itinerary includes a video tribute and an extensive biographical apparatus dedicated to the artist’s life and poetics. The scientific insights curated by Michele Freppaz also create a dialogue between art and science, helping the public to understand the fundamental role of glaciers in the planet’s climatic balance.
There is also an inclusive tactile path designed to broaden the accessibility of the exhibition.
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