In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

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

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

If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

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.