Sebastiao Salgado Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Relationship, Photography, People

• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Stupid, Animal

  "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

• 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

  Photography, Believe, People

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Funny, Photography, Shoes

• The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Photographer

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

• I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Two, Giving

• 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

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

• I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Hate, Past

• 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

  Photography, Symbolism, Able

• 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

  Photography, Light, Appreciate

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, People, Community

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Way, Photographer

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, School, Photographer

  "Sebastião Salgado's best shot". Interview With Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

• 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, Men, Race

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Photographer, Courses

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

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Lenses, Photographer

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

• 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

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

• 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

  Photography, Tip Of The Iceberg, Littles

• 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, Ideas, People

• 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, People, Giving

  "Salgado takes photos of suffering. But he doesn't stop there" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. November 24, 2004.

• 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, Art, Years

• 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

  Photography, Way, Moments

• 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 were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Ideas, Giving

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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