Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgadois a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth8 February 1944
CountryBrazil
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.
privilege cameras speak
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
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.
photography shoes important
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
people photographer made
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.