Who or what I want to photograph I don´t know, I have a thousand new ideas every day and too little time. I certainly want to photograph addicted people as movie stars, but that is for next year. I know that I don´t like shooting famous people, they have too many demands and limitations because of contracts, ego and image. Maybe it sounds a bit vague, but I get really excited and inspired by reading old Biblical stories and Myths and comparing them with everyday life. I realized that the Big Themes (love, religion, class) in the ancient world don´t differ that much from the Big themes of today. For this story I wanted to portray a modern woman, in an existing environment so beautiful it resembles Paradise. But there is something wrong with her. She isn´t happy, she is a Modern Eve. Because it is my opinion that we still live in paradise, or could if we weren´t distracted by inhibiting, castrating opinions from ourselves and others about how we should live or what we should achieve. Paradise isn´t about a beautiful place with nice trees and wonderful fruit, it represents shameless freedom. And freedom is lacking in our society. I don´t mean freedom as free from work, property and obligations, but I mean inner freedom. Free from judgment, free from assumptions, free from opinions about how someone should or shouldn´t live. Never listen to any other voice than your own, except for a very select group of intelligent, inspiring, non-selfish people. People only want to hear themselves speak when they give their opinion. Very seldom it´s about you. Personal growth (in personal or professional life) isn´t about finding a version of you that suits the millions of people that walk around this planet, it´s about respecting all people and their opinions for what they are and are not, and finding your true self in the center of that.

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