Sebastiao Salgado Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera”
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“In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”
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“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.”
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“I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.”
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“I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.”
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“I work on stories rather than individual pictures.”
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“Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.”
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“The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.”
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“As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.”
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“What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.”
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“I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.”
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“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.”
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“We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.”
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“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...”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.”
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“It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.”
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“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.”
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“Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.”
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“I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.”
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“If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.”
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“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.”
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“I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.”
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