My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
Sebastiao SalgadoI have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
Sebastiao SalgadoI try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
Sebastiao SalgadoI tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sebastiao SalgadoI have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.
Sebastiao Salgado