Sebasto’s viewpoint of humanity

Last year, on the occasion of the release of Taschen to “Workers” (originally published in 1993), I had the opportunity to interview a salgado about the visual chat. He was in Paris, sitting in his studio, with a mural printing one of his pictures behind him. Sadado had a soft head and wild white eyebrows. In the conversation, he was a magician and a fairy, but he practiced well in the debate with his critics. “People criticize me that what I do is the beauty of misery.” “But I never, I neverPhotography of misery. never. I photograph people who were less richer in physical commodities. Misery, what is misery? “His follow -up to” workers “was a project called”exit“Who documented the people who collected them in the world – immigrants, exiles and refugees. Talk to me about the importance of society.” When I photograph the refugees coming out of Malawi, and go inside Mozambique – if someone dies, others will cry for him. You see they do not have a bank account, and they have no shoes. But they were proud. They were happy. They have a family living inside. They deserve to have a beautiful picture. Why not? “

After spending some time in Rwandan refugee camps, Sadado told me that he had suffered from a series of physical and mental diseases. He saw a doctor in Paris told him that although there is nothing wrongly wrong, if he continues to continue his work, he will definitely die. He said: “I was very annoyed by being a human being, because I saw the amount of violence that we were able to. We are terrible. Partially as a form of treatment and partially out of environmental interest. The moment I said, “I go to see my planet.” I wanted to see what is virgin in this world. “