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

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

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

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

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.

I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

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.