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 More Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado More Quotes From Sebastiao Salgado 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 appreciate light photography 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. Sebastiao Salgado photography race men 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 black-and-white photography views When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him. Sebastiao Salgado photography people ideas I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. Sebastiao Salgado photography photographer religious 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. Sebastiao Salgado paris wife photography We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. Sebastiao Salgado community photography people I work on stories rather than individual pictures. Sebastiao Salgado individual stories It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me. Sebastiao Salgado differences honor believe It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. Sebastiao Salgado photography photographer persons For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art. Sebastiao Salgado photography photographer art 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. Sebastiao Salgado communication photography believe 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. Sebastiao Salgado photography years art 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 ego photography believe Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. Sebastiao Salgado photography-love too-much photography 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. Sebastiao Salgado degradation photography son I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love. Sebastiao Salgado wife two children 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. Sebastiao Salgado photography giving people 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. Sebastiao Salgado tip-of-the-iceberg photography littles There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully. Sebastiao Salgado moments photography way
