"Each of us can take pictures, capture a moment of this world that is wrestling with death. The image thus recorded exists no longer… we take pictures. The first by our aggression, then feeling the pleasure of sharing, we ripped the skin off the body of the world. The skin becomes a trophy, and/or fame grows with the disappearance of the world… taking pictures expropriate the intimacy of… pain while, at the same time, bearing witness to it. This has to do with the status of the image in our process of getting a grasp on this world. The rawest and most beautiful realities are reduced to an emotional superficiality in our perception. Acquisition, evaluation and understanding of the world constitute a process of capturing it. Capturing means making something one's own; and once it is in one's possession that thing can no longer be taken by another… the picture neutralizes the content. Media brings everything onto one and the same level..."