Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

- Sebastiao Salgado

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.

- Sebastiao Salgado

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 …

- Sebastiao Salgado

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 t…

- Sebastiao Salgado

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.

- Sebastiao Salgado

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

- Sebastiao Salgado

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

- Sebastiao Salgado

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

- Sebastiao Salgado

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 …

- Sebastiao Salgado