I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

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….

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

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.

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

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

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.