FATAL MOMENTS - There's always a fatal moment, in the life of a documentarist photographer, when a picture in a barber shop has to be taken.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S EXISTENCE - If, in observing a picture, one manages to perceive, not the presence, but the very existence of the photographer, that picture has completely missed its purpose.
FLASHES - Photography is all about light: using a flash is like bringing your own food from home when you are invited to a dinner.
DIONYSUS AND APOLLO - Extracting an infinitesimal moment from the flow of the infinitely perceptible is a wholly predatory act, so instinctual as to be primitive, so rational as to be divine: it's as if the Dionysian and the Apollonian worlds clashed and deflagrated in a fraction of a second. No other human form of expression can do that, no painting, no video, no "spray and pray", only photography in its purest form can: one single shot. The resulting sense of satisfaction is indescribable.
THE PURPOSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY - The purpose of photography exercising itself on reality is to reveal an aesthetic in things, not to affirm an ethic: photography is much too ideological for that.
METAPHORS - The photographer is a link between an ontologically given reality (which, as such, is unattainable) and the endless metaphors that reality itself produces through perception, which is what we define reality, though it isn't. The result? One more metaphor.
STAGED PICTURES - Staging a picture in order to make it look like a real candid shot is the same as faking an orgasm: lots of efforts and little to no satisfaction.
BE POLITE - Taking a picture for me is the same as asking a question, and I always try to do that as much politely as possible. Aggressive photography is not my thing.
DEFINITIONS - I never really subscribed to the definition "street photography"; also, I’m not a photojournalist, I’m not into something that "is happening", but rather into something that would have never happened, hadn't someone taken its picture. Though I don't really care, as far as definitions go I like to think to myself as a situational photographer.
