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

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when we were browsing through the shops there were images that attracted me. These are all historical images because these days they're all digital. They don't exist anymore.

Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say, because the image is disturbed by the writings. In a way, they become pure imagery. For me it's really fun because it's an idealistic approach to images, to just play around with information and see what's happening.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

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.

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.