I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.