"In Myanmar I met the most serene and generous people. Maybe it comes from Buddhism, or maybe it's the peace that everyone enjoys now after many long years of dictatorship and violent conflict. I tried to bring out this gentle atmosphere, photographing Yu Kyi in one of the most important Buddhist temples in the world."
"I met Kristina in Moscow when 'The Atlas of Beauty' was at its beginning. I only had rainy days in the Russian capital, so the subway became my playground."
"We live in a world of globalization where everything tends to become uniform. My goal is to show that diversity is the greatest wealth we have, and it's a pity to lose it."
"With The Atlas of Beauty I want to cover totally different places in the world. [In the fall] I was photographing in tropical Cuba. [A few months later] I was exploring the villages of northern Romania, where temperatures were about 35 degrees cooler. This is Claudia."
