The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.

[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.