For me photography - black and white photography - is a little like etching. One uses darkness and light to create an image, the image being something that one secretly carries in ones heart before shooting. It is a strange sensation, yet it is intimately mingled with something personal, something expressed, beyond any simple documentation. As such I need to wait for that presentiment to come before fetching my camera and going out and about. Photography, for me then, is first and foremost a visual language; though I prefer the real, the gritty, before anything more polished or fantastical.
Having lived in various countries, I now reside in France. I am also a writer and filmmaker.