I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado 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 Copy Share Image
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado 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 Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 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 Copy Share Image
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture...… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 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 Copy Share Image
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts.… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. — Sebastiao Salgado 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 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 Copy Share Image
...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... — Sebastiao Salgado 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 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 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 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 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 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 of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado 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 discussion about… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 show, did… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 feelings and… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 have the… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 image. — Sebastiao Salgado 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 person I'd… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
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… — Sebastiao Salgado 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 pictures. Nothing… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
