Reaching beyond documentary, I endeavor to distil the essence of reality into a timeless icon of the here-and-now. No people long dead there to make the viewer ponder the fragility of life—my pictures show the viewer himself, his own fragility, painfully real, ready to end any minute. Through this mediated identification with the everyman at the other end of my lens, I crave to remain humanist without yielding to trivial populism, sophisticated but never artsy or snobby, always welcoming and accessible through the insistent emphasis on sharing—sharing the experience, the atmosphere, the soul of whatever it is we might be going through, together.

I imagine visual perception as a journey of self-discovery—each new stage, each new direction, every new accomplishment becomes a fertile field, in which the next generation of my images takes root, in which it quickly grows to explode and amaze. Over the past few years I have covered every major approach to photography, from strictly documentary to purely abstract, with the firm consequence and logic of a hunter, randomness or hesitation unknown. Being human I cannot help being influenced by photographs, my own, aiming to show humans to humans. Every new experience is formative for me—I become a different artist as its result; having created a new photograph, I am immediately ready to jump to another square in this eternal game awareness plays with intuition, I am ready to continue my journey.

I took these photographs (as I take all photographs) to see what I was capable of seeing—at all the various levels of seeing. For what I see in a finished photograph is invariably different than what I saw at the scene when I was taking the photograph, as if the subject has been transformed by the act of me taking a photograph of it, by the very process of collapsing life into a flat, rectangular object, the final fusion of form and content... In awe, I watch the image unfold, take on a life of its own, take off—and fly!