Most of the girls were photographed individually, and it reflects the loneliness they often experience at that age. I can relate to the situations in which I place the models, as though I am reliving scenes from my adolescence, but that are transposed to a more modern environment. It also helps me to work with them successfully. There is also a certain ambiguity and mischievousness in these situations that stems from my own experiences of growing up in a large family.
You can often catch youngsters just staring into space, immersed in their own thoughts and fantasies. Putting the girls in these surreal settings stresses the importance of day-dreaming, inhabiting an imaginary world, which at this age often seems bigger and more real than their own contemporary suburban surroundings. In their fantasies, girls are much more powerful than in their every-day lives and that is why the idea of them towering over houses and streets appealed to me. It was also important for me to show the girls involved in the context of their daily lives, such as picking up a milk bottle from the front of the house, or walking down the street with a shopping cart, or looking after a baby brother.