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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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Sebastiao Salgado
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 8
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
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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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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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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.
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Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
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