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
decent future planet
It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.
photography shoes important
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
photography way photographer
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
privilege cameras speak
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.