Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgadois a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth8 February 1944
CountryBrazil
Sebastiao Salgado quotes about
photography black-and-white views
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
photography photographer persons
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
photography way moments
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
photography believe ego
When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.
photography machines eras
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.
photography school economist
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
photography opportunity reality
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
photograph ideology
You photograph with all your ideology.
photography lenses
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
photography too-much photography-love
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
photography son degradation
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
photography light appreciate
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.
photography ideas giving
When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.
photography courses
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.