The pictures above are from the first project I ever did, before I started studying photography in art school. Unlike the work I do now, which is mostly shot on film, back then I only shot digital. I was afraid of the intimacy that occurs when photographing people so I would turn to plants and flowers and mostly go out at night with my camera. I am posting this to show that even though my work and aesthetic has changed a lot, I believe that even back then I was still looking for the same things, just in other places and without really being aware. Sex and beauty. This artist, I forget his name, once said during an artist talk I attended that all artists really only have one story to tell and we keep telling it over and over in different ways. It sounds terrifying but I enjoy this idea.

I keep a lot of plants at home and botanics and gardening is my thing next to photography. I find it extremely satisfying and inspiring, planting seeds and watching things grow. Same as with art, there is an element of creation here that is very important to me in everything I do.

Below I have included included the trailer for a BBC documentary about plants, featuring my hero, David Attenborough (the emperor of The UK). It features a lot of time lapse footage of flowers unfolding and vines twining. Very arousing, yet soothing. I often watch this before I go to sleep.