Quotessence
Home / Authors / Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

Photographer

Filter quotes by topic

AllPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPeopleWayHumansPersonsBelieveGivingCamerasDiscussionEndsI BelieveIfsLanguageMomentsPlanetsProvokingStoriesWorld

Famous Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

“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.”

PeopleWayTogetherPastHateSpacePhotographyRelationCamerasPhotographerPhotographIdeologyOur FutureOur PastYour FutureYour PastFractions
Author:Sebastiao Salgado
Create image

“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.”

WayGivingIdeasEndsStoriesShowsPlanetsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographInnocenceFactoriesIncentivesGarbageDegradationDepositsPristine
Author:Sebastiao Salgado
Create image

“It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me.”

IfsWayBelieveImportantMomentsStoriesBigsAsksIndividualI BelieveDifficultDifferencesImpossibleGroupsHonorPhotographerPhotographClientsSelectDecisive MomentsCartier
Author:Sebastiao Salgado
Create image