I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.