I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.