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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.