When working with children I enjoy levelling myself for a certain period of time with them and their views on life. It's refreshing and gives me an understanding of them, as well as a lot of crazy energy for my own life and work. I do see a lot of positive learning and excitement in the kids. I feel like a teacher, and the subject is Dreams .. or Photofun, or just NO VIDEOGAMES.. or PLAYING IN THE MUD. I originally studied to be a teacher for handicapped children and I was always surrounded by children (my mum being a speech-therapist and me being a regular babysitter from the age of 15)

I see my career as a full circle. I wanted to become a teacher. I choose to go for the more artistic in me, to do photography and sacrifice the teacher.. and now I come back with my photography and am a teacher again. That is just brilliant!

These images are about how I see things.. and particularly how I see childhood, memories and the kids that I deal with in my daily life. They make so much sense to me.. and even more sense to others!

The "Dreams of Flying" series has been published in a limited edition of 500 books and was launched in London just before Christmas last year. To me the book is the ultimate way of placing and seeing the images, much better than on a gallery wall. It is a book with 13 individual stories of dreams and it is a book for grown ups, made by kids (me being a big kid). It is the quintessential shape of the project.