Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around the world, close or far. In order to transform this information into art you have to add poetry. It's essential.

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word America to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.

Images have an advanced religion they bury history.

We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity they represent for me what is left of our humanity.

How many languages do we really speak?

I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say, No! That's not my America, not the America I know. I'm honored - it's just not me. But as we were saying before, the artist loses control.

My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.