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.

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.

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.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

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.

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….