In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

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.

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

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

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

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.