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.

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

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.

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. 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 don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.