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

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.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

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.

I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

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

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