I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

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.