The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
Interpretation
Photography is a structured form of communication that conveys aesthetics.
Sebastiao Salgado suggests that photography, as a formal language, serves as an artistic medium for communication. This implies that every photograph carries a deliberate aesthetic intention, transforming visual expression into a sophisticated form of dialogue that transcends words.
In practice
In a presentation about visual storytelling, I might start with the quote by Sebastiao Salgado.
I 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.
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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