Sebastiao Salgado

Let's build Paradise again.

— Sebastiao Salgado

You photograph with all your ideology.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

— Sebastiao Salgado

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

— Sebastiao Salgado

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

— Sebastiao Salgado

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— 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…

— Sebastiao Salgado

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind…

— 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…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

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

The most important thing for me is to have my cereal. I have milk and granola and cheese. And that's it. I…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

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

In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places…

— Sebastiao Salgado

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.

— Sebastiao Salgado

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

— Sebastiao Salgado

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

— Sebastiao Salgado

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have…

— Sebastiao Salgado