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

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.

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.

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

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

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.