Sebastiao Salgado People Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.