The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

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.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.