Did you feel a pressure to pursue your trained profession as a mason?
It was a big risk for me – everything I had earned through masonry I was obliged to invest in learning the art of photography. Cheaper material did not produce beautiful photos. I threw everything I had into making images.

Iberia Quarries,
Marmetal Co., Borba, Portugal, 2006

No philosophy, theory, religion, or system of thought can be absolute and infall…ible. They are relative only. One man’s opinion is just as good as another’s.
– John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 – die…d June 17, 1952), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology. He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp. He was also an occultist…

Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, composer and writer with a large cult following.