The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.