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

Sebastiao Salgado

Biography

Author Profession: Photographer

Nationality: Brazilian

Born: February 8, 1944

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Language, Person, Photography, Religious, Religious Person, Symbolic

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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. Sebastiao Salgado

Black And White, Black, End, View, Know

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light. Sebastiao Salgado

Beautiful, Light, Alaska, Incredible

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

Community, Live, People, Society, Never

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

Hope, Thought, End, Innocence, Garbage

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. Sebastiao Salgado

Work, Light, Quality, Lose, Bad, I Can

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this. Sebastiao Salgado

Future, Live, You, Important, Now, Right

The most important thing for me is to have my cereal. I have milk and granola and cheese. And that's it. I have a lot of cereals that I eat all day long, and I have a big appetite. All over the planet I carry my cereals! Sebastiao Salgado

Day, Me, Long, Important, Cheese, Eat

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love. Sebastiao Salgado

Love, Children, Wife, Child, Down, Two

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art. Sebastiao Salgado

Art, Me, Anything, Wide, Concept

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

People, Moments, Picture, Better, Know

I work on stories rather than individual pictures. Sebastiao Salgado

Work, Pictures, Individual, Stories

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time. Sebastiao Salgado

Time, Book, Career, Starting, Fabulous

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

Stupid, Animals, Born, Survive, Living

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important. Sebastiao Salgado

Children, Live, Power, Money, Society

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