"I didn't come to Brazil to take photographs, but to show them: Silvana Mangano with her skin, Beckett on the beach, Marcello Mastroianni dancing, my collection of passersby with our own gaze, twins, twins with sometimes blind walks, and these great photographs where with both hands I paint the emotions of the day. Now - as the conjunction goes to this country with a sun so close that one can touch it with a finger like tickling the chin of a tanned god - I found there beauty in its purest form." François-Marie Banier