An admirer of Sebastião Salgado

One of the photographers I admire the most is Sebastião Salgado. Being a Brazilian like him I was always inspired by his practice. In the photographic method of Salgado, we rarely see posed photographs. Usually, people are displayed performing some kind of activity that quite often are registered in the middle of its course.

This “decisive moment”, as declared by Cartier-Bresson, is always present in Salgado’s images and for sure influenced profoundly my photography as well.  It’s interesting to notice that we almost never see actions that could be considered completed or recently started. On the contrary, Salgado composes his subjects in the midst of their actions, mostly at critical moments, making his pictures to portrait even more intensively this sense of decisive moment.

Going through my own photography I can see a constant attempt of replicating this method. If I am taking pictures for a client on a social event or documenting my own work in the Middle East, I always trying to capture the climax of actions as they happen.