Photographer

I've never really understood tattoos. I mean, it's your body - why would you wanna scar it? I don't mind other people's tattoos, but I just never got it.

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

Family is a major part of my life.

I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

I don't care about fashion at all.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

It's important to be involved in different things for me.

I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

I just want to do everything as good as I possibly can.

I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.