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In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
Sebastiao Salgado
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Sebastiao Salgado
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 8
Painter
Photographer
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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado
Sebasuchan Sarugado
Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastio Salgado
Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado
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More quotes by Sebastiao Salgado
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
Sebastiao Salgado
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
Sebastiao Salgado
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
Sebastiao Salgado
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.
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The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.
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It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
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