It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

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

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

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

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