In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. — Sebastiao Salgado Cameras Copy Share Image
...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... — Sebastiao Salgado Life Copy Share Image
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. — Sebastiao Salgado Abandoning Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado Cameras Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. — Sebastiao Salgado Community Copy Share Image
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. — Sebastiao Salgado Become Copy Share Image
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado Economist Copy Share Image
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself… — Sebastiao Salgado Bits Copy Share Image
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is… — Sebastiao Salgado Believe Copy Share Image
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come… — Sebastiao Salgado Come up Copy Share Image
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try… — Sebastiao Salgado Become Copy Share Image
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and… — Sebastiao Salgado Areas Copy Share Image
The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any… — Sebastiao Salgado Any Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that… — Sebastiao Salgado Function Copy Share Image
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But… — Sebastiao Salgado Cherish Copy Share Image
I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they… — Sebastiao Salgado Accepting Copy Share Image
What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a… — Sebastiao Salgado Appreciate Copy Share Image
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more… — Sebastiao Salgado Animal Copy Share Image
When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest… — Sebastiao Salgado Age Copy Share Image
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places… — Sebastiao Salgado Black Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Colour Copy Share Image
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time… — Sebastiao Salgado Cheaper Copy Share Image
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in… — Sebastiao Salgado Asks Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction… — Sebastiao Salgado Camera Copy Share Image
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado Inspirational Copy Share Image
I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love. — Sebastiao Salgado Child Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. — Sebastiao Salgado Language Copy Share Image
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind… — Sebastiao Salgado Believe Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion… — Sebastiao Salgado Appreciate Copy Share Image
What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these… — Sebastiao Salgado Around the world Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible, Salgado lives for a while with the people he photographs. “I tell a little bit of my life to them,… — Sebastião Salgado Life Copy Share Image
I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of… — Sebastiao Salgado Average Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Aside Copy Share Image
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single… — Sebastiao Salgado Able Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have… — Sebastiao Salgado Archeology Copy Share Image
