The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.