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Sebastiao Salgado's Profile

Brief about Sebastiao Salgado: By info that we know Sebastiao Salgado was born at 1944-02-08. And also Sebastiao Salgado is Brazilian Photographer.

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

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

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

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

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Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

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

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

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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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! 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 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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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.

Tags: Bad, Light, Work

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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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.

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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.

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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 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!

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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.

Tags: Money, Power, Society
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