The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

I never photograph reality.

How can one live without hope and longing?