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

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

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.

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.

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.