"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."
"There are two ways in which I take photos for 'The Atlas of Beauty.' Sometimes I find an interesting face and we plan a short photo shoot in a place that is relevant to the community and the person. Other times, I simply stop them in the street, I ask them about what they do, and I take one or two photos on the spot."
