Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.

Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful