Only out of love for human beings, out of a strong ability to empathize, can he take such moving pictures.

Llewellyn 2022-03-22 09:02:38

In Greek, photo means light, and graphe means writing and painting, and a "photographer" is a person who can write with light, who can use light and shadow to describe the world. The love of human beings Saldoga has only one belief - to change ideas, to assimilate emotions, and by doing so, to ultimately change the human condition. The most important project is to save all mankind, end war, end famine, and even change the rules of the world, they want to find a new Moses, lead the victims out of their predicament People are walking in the opposite direction to their homeland, but there is no The security they wanted, there was nothing there. There is a beast in the world that is extremely cruel, and there is a beast in the world that is extremely terrifying. That is us, human beings... Human beings are the symbol of real extreme violence. This is a story with no end, a sad, depressing, crazy story.

The photographer thought it was an endless catastrophe because he had witnessed too much evil in the world, but in the end it was nature that saved him.

I no longer believe in this world, I no longer believe in the so-called redemption of human beings, human beings should not live like this, and no one deserves to live like this. My soul is breaking. I don't believe in human's rescue any more.

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  • Jedidiah 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    Re-acquainted with Salgado and his works, this guy who used to appear in my college textbooks, until today, realizes that this guy has experienced so much "pain of others".

  • Misty 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    #文德斯影展#Sebastião Salgado is a compassionate artist and the photographer most admired by wenders. Behind every photo is the world we live in every day. Wenders explains the original meaning of photograph at the beginning, Photograph=photo+graph , Photo means “light” in Latin, graph means “image”, and “photography” actually means “painting with light and shadow”. Sebastião Salgado has used the camera as a weapon throughout his life to faithfully record the subtle processes of human history, whether it is In the changing Latin America, South Africa with dead bodies, or burning Kuwait oil fields, he has never regarded himself as an outsider. It is precisely because he is so close to the truth of history that his soul was burned, and he was as sick as this suffering planet. He cursed human beings as "unworthy to live", "the most violent and evil animal" and "our sins are hard to wash." In his later years, he devoted himself to nature photography, building and cultivating vast forests with his family, and personally repairing the destroyed environment, integrating himself with nature. To be honest, I am very envious of such a life.

The Salt of the Earth quotes

  • Sebastião Salgado - Photographer: We are a ferocious animal. We humans are terrible animals. Our history is a history of wars. It's an endless story, a tale of madness.

  • Sebastião Salgado - Photographer: To think that these three-month-old trees will reach their apex in 400 years. Perhaps from there we could try to grasp the concept of eternity. Maybe eternity is measurable.