I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

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

Let's build Paradise again.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

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….

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.