My main themes are personal and imaginary, made up of different people I have encountered, people in which I find the unusual and beautiful together, among them some of my family members.
I do not belong to the sort of photographers who always carry a camera with them, documenting moment after moment. I do look to capture snippets of reality but attempt to slightly alter those pieces of truth.

When I was nine years old my parents were divorced. This had an immense impact on my life. I have very few memories of my childhood, and the few memories that remain are based on old photographs I have seen and stories I have heard from my parents.
My photographs deal with childhood and family. I reconstruct situations that correspond with my childhood in some way, yet at the same time tell a universal social story.

My work is one of truth and fiction. The truth lies in the naturalness and sincerity of the children. Their innocence is too great to forge, create or manipulate into the photograph. The photograph itself is the fabrication, a place that does not belong to them but to me.
Separating the children from time and place are necessary for me, although I will always search for a place that is natural for them. I often wander with my photographed subject searching for a location together. Other times I find the location first and later search for the character to suit it.

I attempt to seemingly create a private, intimate moment that portrays the virtues of the subject before me by means of presenting his faults. In other words, I search for the "is" through the "is not".
I feel in fact that the photographed moment is not a private moment, instead a moment which deals with human weakness as it is.

I find closeness to people while I photograph them and fall in love with them in various strange ways until they become part of me and the story I try to tell.