As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

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

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

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.