I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.
It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.