To observe people and their behaviour is one of my most entertaining activities that I indulge in. People are a constant, surprising and enjoyable source of inspiration for me. My childhood memories also play roles in creative processes that I am involved with. I often reveal my childhood through my memories of it and that world of mine comes naturally back now and again. It’s a game that happens at the back of my mind, aware of it, or not. A fluent course of images from the past will interact with my present reality and I guess that shapes, too, what I see when I make a photograph.

For me, photography comes from the need of recording the reality I am interested in. The possibility of condensing its substance, the substance of reality, into one single haunting moment fascinates me. At the beginning I was trying to never alter anything. And I am still probably looking for that, depending on what I am working on and how, but I now believe that this is just a poetic way of putting it.

What I look at in my work is not something new or exotic for me, I could never make good work if it was so.

I usually work in a very intuitive way and the pictures and editing are not a result of a deep introspection. This work was no exception. I do have a photojournalistic background which I like to think will sty alive and it probably shapes my style but on the other hand what I really want to capture in a picture is not what’s directly visible in it.