To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.