I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!