Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgadois a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth8 February 1944
CountryBrazil
photography art wide
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
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.
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 two giving
I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them...
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.
believe average giving
I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.
inspirational motivational paradise
Let's build Paradise again.
photography men race
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today, my big hope is that they understand. That they understand that the population is quite big enough, that they must be informed that they must have economic development, that they must have social development, and must be integrated into all parts of the world.
photography trying together
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
photography symbolism able
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
photography hate past
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.
photography artist storyteller
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
war opportunity race
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….
believe people style
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.