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.

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

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.

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

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

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.