Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

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

I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
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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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We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.
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For me, art is such a wide conceptanything can be art.
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In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
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The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.
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I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don’t use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it’s a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.
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! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens – and photography immediately started to invade my life.
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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 am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
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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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