how do i work ... and why i make what i make ....

text published by Static - the London consortium in 2006:
Playful past and violent future, Or when toys cease being toys

and something more recent:

My works are imaginary pictures, photographs of imaginary settings that I build.
The underlying themes of my work remain constant throughout the series. Alienation, the collapse of time, the individual thrown back unto her/himself, alternate realities, reality shifts ... and sometimes simply an idea triggered by an object I see or a book I read, the news ...
Some of my works have one way or another a relationship to where i stand in that particular moment in time. I find it impossible to completely dissociate my life from my work and also find it interesting to distill an essence of my reality, or my dreams, and interests and use it to build and make something completely different. I try to keep my pictures minimalist, I am interested in building a tension, hinting at a story, while using as little elements as possible. However, my concepts and stories only work if i manage to capture a spirit that is more then the simple sum of the elements that constitute the picture.
I see the different works as stills from longer stories, they are part of a narrative, yet stand on their own.
The works of the series “Big Dawn” from 2007 are associated by their visual rather then by an explicit narrative, the Berlin series “Berlin black” from 2009, by the city I live in, “Exodus II” however has been shot with a real story in mind, a story that evolved at the same time as i shot the pictures and build the sets. The pictures of this series, "Un-veiled", are visually and thematically connected.
I began adding other elements to some of my series, a recorded story with "Exodus II", fake diary extracts and snapshots with "Inner Landscapes" from 2010, sewing thread in "Un-veiled", while other remain purely photographic.

i work with different cameras, analogue as well as digital, relatively simple cameras. i hardly alter my pictures digitally after taking them, the occasional tiny contrast enhancement or a bit of cropping is all i do, much of my pictures strength results from the lights i use in my settings and post production would never achieve the same effects.
i like most of my works to be printed on a large scale, the figures i use for my settings are tiny, the fact to enlarge them gives them a life, an expression every set up i build is destroyed after i (sometimes wrongly) assume that i made the best possible picture from it.