At the time I was buying lots of books and magazines, and one day I stumbled on Bernard Plossu ' s work. I immediately loved his work, the aesthetic, it was more than photography, it was like paintings, drawings in a sense. Of course, there is also Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, all these photographers of the instant, or the moment, with a very different feel towards photography which seems like cinema, or even literature sometimes. The way they would treat the substance of the image, more alive in my belief, more mysterious. Because to me, it ' s more than the subject, it ' s about the way we bring you into that image.
3 / A big part of your work is made in film. Why is that?
I love film, I claim it, I even wrote a book on it. With digital( and there is nothing wrong if you like digital) it ' s just I feel you tend to ease yourself with software editing, even though I admit it ' s cheaper and not as complicated as developing your own film. But I just don ' t enjoy it, I can ' t really explain. I believe I have spent too much time in the dark room( laugh). I would say it ' s like writing in a type writer or on a computer, the feeling is so different and some just can ' t type on computers. For me it ' s all about the grain, even though I do sometimes digital, I rarely keep any digital images. I just can ' t consider it something serious, for my type of work, and therefore don ' t really do any digital work, I don ' t find any pleasure in it.