Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgadois a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth8 February 1944
CountryBrazil
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 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 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 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 school economist
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
photography people giving
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
photograph ideology
You photograph with all your ideology.
photography paris wife
I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
stories individual
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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.
children two wife
I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
beautiful alaska light
The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.