There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material – not for telling the truth.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.