For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.