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.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

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

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

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.