In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.