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

In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

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

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.