“I don’t want anyone to appreciate the light or the palate of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion and to raise money.”

The picture is not made by photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationshipThat you have with people you photograph.

If you take picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture.

It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes then To have a very good camera.

Born in February 4, 1944, he became a PHD holder in Economics, a big admirer of of Mohon Das Karam Chand Gandhi, Economist Sebastiao Salgado turn into a photographer after he got a camera from his wife in 1973. He thinks of him as one of the most privileged person in the world who could travel 120 countries in his life till today.

He is undoubtedly one of the legend in the world of photography with his own unique style of story telling, which makes people think and feel the story beingtold.

Most unlikely with other legendary photographer, he is not against the digital era rather he appreciates the capability of flexibility of digitalized age.

•Started his career as photographer in 1973.• His first book is Other Americas published in 1986.•Sahel: the man in Distress in 1986. Worker in 1992. Migration and the Children in 2000.

Joined Magnum in 1979 and left magnum in 1994 and started own agencyCalled Amazonas Images.

Hal Gould Consider him as the most Important photographer of 21st century.

Is the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Migration

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the globe have been uprooted from their homes by poverty, wars and repression. Some flee to save their lives; others risk their lives to escape destitution. Most end up in refugee camps or in the slums of Third World cities; a lucky few find a better life in an affluent country far from their own. All in their different ways are at the mercy of economic and political forces beyond their control.

The global economic change deepening rural poverty in much of the Third World, peasant migration is creating gargantuan ungovernable cities.

Almost everything that happens on earth is somehow connected. We are all affected by the widening gap between rich and poor, by population growth, by the mechanization of agriculture, by destruction of the environment, by bigotry exploited for political ends.

The people wrenched from their homes are simply the most visible victims of a global convulsion.

Workers

The highly industrialized world is racing ahead and stumbling over the future. In reality, this telescoping of time is the result of the work of people throughout the world, although in practice it may benefit few. The developed world produces only for those who can consume-approximately one-fifth of all people. The remaining four-fifths, who could theoretically benefit from surplus production, have no way of becoming consumers.

The destiny of men and women is to create a new world, to reveal a new life, to remember that there exists a frontier for everything except dreams. In this way, they adapt, resist, believe, and survive.

Video Clip : THE SPECTRE OF HOPE

THE SPECTRE OF HOPE brings together art critic John Berger, author of WAYS OF SEEING, and world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado for a discussion about the power of photographic images to inform and inspire. Asthey peruse Salgado's book, MIGRATIONS, a project that took him to 43 countries in order to document the experiences of people pushed from their homes and traditions to cities and their margins -- slums and streets and refugee camps, their intimate and wide-ranging conversation, intercut with Salgado's photographs, explores the deeper meanings of Salgado's images, addressing both their artistic and emotional qualities and their political function as a critique of globalization.