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
around-the-world want debate
What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.
photography ideas giving
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.
photography art wide
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
stupid animal years
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
photography religious language
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
photography believe communication
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
noble way doe
If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.
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.
stories individual
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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.