Become Quote by Sebastiao Salgado

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

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

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

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

Let's build Paradise again.

— 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 feelings and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

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

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

! 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

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

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