Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian · 1944–2025
Documentary photographer whose epic black-and-white images chronicle workers, migrations, and the natural world with monumental compassion.
Wikipedia ↗“I went to photograph the end of the world, and I found it.”
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“When you photograph a tree or a forest, you must feel the tree, you must feel the forest.”
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Genesis, 2013 ↗ (2013)
“Photography is not objective. It is deeply subjective—my photography is consistent ideologically and ethically with the person I am.”
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“I have been a photographer for too long to be able to see the world in a detached way.”
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“I am not showing you these pictures to make you feel bad, but to give you a sense of what is happening.”
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