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 a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

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.

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.

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.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.