I Shoot Fantasy. If You Want Reality,

There's Nothing That Symbolizes Loss Or Grief More Than A Mother Losing A Child.

I Have Always Gone To Nature, Since I Was A Kid. I Was Brought Up In The Woods, I Did Not Have Lots Of Friends, So I Spent Lot Of Time Alone. My Mother Always Loved To Live In The Forest; She Loved Gardens, Birds And Nature And Taught Me A Deep Respect For That. She Taught Me About Growing Food And Vegetables And To Take Care Of Animals. They Also Have Feelings. So Nature Was Always Something Sacred For Me, The Place I Can Go, Meditate And Pray. It's Like A Church In The Nature For Me.

Every Culture Has Beauty And Decorations Of Body. This Is Not Of Itself Superficial, This Is Very Human. Decorating When It Becomes Out Of Balance, When It Becomes About The Materialism, About How Many Shoes, How Many Handbags, How Expensive They Are, And The Status, Then It's No Longer Just About An Expression Or Looking Beautiful, That's More About 'i Have Money, I Am Rich'. It Felt Out Of Balance.

The Minute You Point A Camera At Something, You Are Manipulating The Image, Because You Are Cropping Out Whatever Is To The Left And Right Of It. The Minute You Put A Light On Someone, You Are Manipulating The Image.

People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched Images Soon And They'll Want Something Different. If People Have Too Much Reality, They Want Fantasy. What Matters Most Is What The Image Communicates. I Remember The First Roll Of Film I Shot At High School, The Contact Sheet Went From These Really Worthy Images Of Cracks In The Wall And Ended Up With All Of My Dancer Friends Naked In Renaissance Poses.