In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than it was. Manipulation is very discrete and because it's so discrete nobody cares about it anymore. People accept manipulated photographs, I think.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.