Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.

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.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.