I was in a school in Zanzibar where these children were intent on listening to the lesson. I sat in the last row and waited for someone to turn and look at me. Children are curious, so it had to happen, and after a few minutes, it did. 

Children are curious, and everyone looks at you at the beginning because you are a new, different person with a camera in your hand, which is maybe something they've never seen before. So, at the beginning, everyone was looking at it. Then the teacher drew my attention back to the lesson, and I positioned myself in the back without making any noise but just waiting for someone to turn and look at me. And so it happened.

I look for images that tell a story or excite, which excite me. I look for images where I am an integrated but hidden part of a scene. Where my emotions come out together with the image.

My favorite artist is Steve McCurry in everything he does I consider poetry. Then there are Bresson and Fabio Bucciarelli. I like the beauty and elegance of Henri Cartier Bresson's Black and White. Fabio Bucciarelli's ability to enter war scenes and tell the story in a superlative way.

I'm starting to photograph a project that concerns the history of my country. I'd like to tell how a country with few inhabitants has people with qualities that perhaps few people know.

I don't have a dream photographic subject; my photographic subject is people. People's eyes tell stories, so having a past and a future and telling it through photography is certainly a privilege. I'd really like to enter humanitarian structures and tell the stories of suffering and hope, maybe offering a little smile with my images.