We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today, my big hope is that they understand. That they understand that the population is quite big enough, that they must be informed that they must have economic development, that they must have social development, and must be integrated into all parts of the world.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

Let's build Paradise again.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….