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.

Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So it's the old thing that you still cannot trust photography at all or you have to know who is distributing the photograph. In terms of cell phone photography, I think nobody cares about a photograph anymore because they're taking so many pictures just for fun.

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

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

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

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.

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