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

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.

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.

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 love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

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.