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

Jaylin 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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  • 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.