Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgadois a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth8 February 1944
CountryBrazil
bad difference digital lose machines relief work
I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.
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.
carry planet
The most important thing for me is to have my cereal. I have milk and granola and cheese. And that's it. I have a lot of cereals that I eat all day long, and I have a big appetite. All over the planet I carry my cereals!
aside developed fabulous looked starting time
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.
people
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.
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.
children interests leave money power problem society
The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.
bought camera chance discovered invade lens life living looked pictures time wife
! 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.
photography light people
What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. 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. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.
photography art years
I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
photography tip-of-the-iceberg littles
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
photography courses
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
photography people community
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.
photography paris sao-paulo
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.