Sebastiao Salgado Quotes About Photography

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Relationship, Photography, People

• Somos animales, nacidos de la tierra con las demás especies. Desde que vivimos en ciudades, nos hemos vuelto cada vez más estúpidos, no más listos. Lo que nos ha hecho sobrevivir todos estos cientos de miles de años es nuestra espiritualidad; el vínculo con nuestra tierra.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Stupid, Animal

  "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, People

• It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Funny, Photography, Shoes

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Photographer

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Two, Giving

• I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Hate, Past

• La fotografía está llena de simbolismo, es un lenguaje simbólico. Tienes que ser capaz de materializar todos tus pensamientos en una sola imagen.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Symbolism, Able

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, Appreciate

• For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Art, Photographer

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

• It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Photographer, Persons

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Paris, Sao Paulo

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, People

• He intentado mejorar la comunicación entre las personas. Creo que la fotografía humanitaria es como la economía. La economía es una especie de sociología, al igual que la fotografía documental.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Communication

• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Black And White, Views

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

• We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, People, Community

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

• My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Photographer

• I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, School, Photographer

  "Sebastião Salgado's best shot". Interview With Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

• Somos una sola raza humana, y debe haber comprensión entre todos los hombres. Para los que miran los problemas de hoy, mi gran esperanza es que comprendan. Que comprendan que la población es bastante grande, que hay que informarles de que deben tener desarrollo económico, que deben tener desarrollo social, y que deben integrarse en todas las partes del mundo.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Men, Race

• Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Photographer, Courses

• I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Lenses, Photographer

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

• 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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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