Seeing my son every day makes me ask myself what life will have in store for him.

I can only hope that everything I am doing will be for his benefit. Looking at him also makes me look at myself and what I am like as a father.  

My most recent work reflects on family and relationships, and about the influence parents have on their children.  I look at my own relations, past and present, and at other people’s.  I remember for example walking past a father with a little boy on his shoulders, who pointed at a police jeep and taught his child to call the police “black bastards”. 

My work is always very personal.  I need to be passionate about something to create meaningful and energetic images.  Looking at relationships between people, including my own, helps me see beyond my own past.  I am starting from fresh as a father and each minute brings something new.