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

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

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.

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.