Genius And Taste Don't Go Together.

The Point Of My Photography Has Always Been To Challenge Myself, To Go A Little Further Than My Germanic Discipline And Teutonic Nature Would Traditionally Permit Me To.

It Began When I Was So Ill That There Was A Good Chance Of Dying. I Promised Myself That If I Survived I Would Never Again Pander To A Magazine's Requests Or Follow The Ideas Of Art Directors. I Would Only Make Images Which Were Personal, Which Arose Out Of My Own Life.

...what I Try To Do Is A Good Bad Picture. I Work It Out Very Carefully, And Then I Do Something That Looks As If It Went Wrong.

I Spend A Lot Of Time Preparing. I Think A Lot About What I Want To Do. I Have Prep Books, Little Notebooks In Which I Write Everything Down Before A Sitting. Otherwise I Would Forget My Ideas.

I Was Lucky To Have My Wife As The Art Director, And It Turned Out To Be Quite Something - A Great Success. I'm Very Proud Of It.