South-America
>In your autobiography you state
that everyone is the same. How
do you think this reflects in your
photography, and how do you
realise this?
I try to pick out the something
recognizable from every kind of
world. I try to show the humane
part of every person. This way I
try to expose the things people
might miss at first sight, by doing
this I unconsciously portray a part
of myself. Above all, I try to be
open and honest and hope that
they will treat me with the same
courtesy. If I photograph a “gang”
I try and live the subject. This way
you evoke a strong bond of trust
and really be right in the centre of
it all. You and your camera enter
their daily life, and it is exactly
in these normalities that you’ll
discover universally recognisable
features of the human kind.
Emotion, Family and life itself.
>What goes through your mind when someone
takes a hand full of bullets out of his pocket?
Rotterdam
Los Angeles
Life. That’s just life. I like to stay neutral in these
kind of things and not judge people. I don’t feel
fear because I approach, and treat them with
respect and because of that, they treat me with
respect as well.
Tilburg
>How do people react when you’re standing in
front of them with your camera? Especially in
threatening situations?
They don’t see the camera. I’m one of them.
Together with my camera.
40
www.imstacii.com
“I want to create heroes in
our generation”