I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.