Travelling is like... escaping. It's like
you just want to escape yourself, or you just want to—
to discover, to search for something which might not be existing,
but that you might want to find
You're searching for air. You might search for yourself
In the distance, things are very small
You can hardly perceive them
It's like a dot coming towards you
And I think the distance is about desire and about walking
Walking is slowing down time,
and that's something very important for me,
to slow down time, that you can actually start seeing things
And observe very clearly, and things become more defined,
and walking is a way to do that
The night is the moment you take the road
and you travel your mind, and you let everything come to you
It's like, you know, those are the moments when you dream, when you—
when you think
I'm South American now [laughs]
And I grew up in Africa. Ethiopia, Chad and Nigeria
I've been to Colombia before. It obviously has a very dark past,
and I've photographed in the hills of Usme
in the outskirts of Bogotá, right after Carnival
And I also visited Medellín, and I very well remember meeting Paulo,
a former child soldier, living in this very small room, without any belongings
No one actually knew anything about his past, his history,
and Paulo one day escaped
He heard music in the hills and he just ran away,
until he reached a shelter
I guess travel is like a route, so,
lot of things happening. You stop, you take a look
One doesn't sleep. I don't sleep. I hardly sleep
Sometimes I think it's a waste of time, and I don't have time enough
in my daily life, so yeah, I do not sleep
Just this one little detail sometimes, that defines everything. It—
might just... make life for the piece
As much as the detail's important, in life, I believe that you don't need
to see everything, or you don't have to know everything
Every face, there is a story: a past, present, future—
I mean, it's very interesting to look at faces because it is like a dictionary
It's full of words. In every wrinkle there's a kind of sadness or happiness
There's a way people can look at you, or you can look at them,
can be desirable, can be very seductive, can be very sensual
I love it when people look at each other
I won't put this one in between
Can you walk for me again, please?
When you design a collection
or think about your work, or have those moments of silence, and
everything is passing in front of you, and—
- I know the problem, I understand the problem
It's certainly not all about beauty
It needs to intrigue me. There should be something disturbing
Because beauty can be disturbing
It's like what Pasolini used to say. He preferred not to make any movies anymore
Because in his fantasy, they were much more beautiful than in reality
And that's my romantic way of looking at things
To look back to the past, that actually embracing the future,
as Colombia has quite heavy past or dark past,
that was a way to look at things in a romantic way
I remember the view from the building where the show was,
and everyone was enveloped in darkness, as if they were wound up
in their own thoughts. And it was quite beautiful
I often love that women are coming out of the dark
You see their shadows, you see their silhouette,
and it's up to you, as a voyeur or as an observer,
to define what you think, or what you would like to think it to be
When you don't know everything, you can make up your own story
It's like looking at a painting: I don't need to have any explanation,
I just would like to have my own fantasy on it
We don't know where she's coming from, and we don't know where she's going
We don't know if she's coming from somewhere,
she's going there, in the city, to lose herself
When I'm in a bar or at a concert, I would always look at the person
who was in the corner, who's the one with the most silent,
and the observer. And I wish to be that person