For over 25 years, I have engaged with the urban landscape as an artist. Most of this work emerges from self-initiated projects, though commissions also lead to outcomes in the form of photographic works, video works, and publications. In my photography, the urban landscape is variously shaped by stillness, abstraction, contemplation, and transition. In the beginning, I worked mainly on individual, self-contained pieces, but as my body of work has grown, I have increasingly presented it in the form of projects.

My greatest challenge is to make images that function as key moments of the time in which I live. Originally, I looked mainly to urbanized environments and architectural situations for the narratives that formed the basis of my work. More recently, the edges of the city, the periphery, and the surrounding landscape have naturally become part of that exploration.
By now, colour and detail have become familiar components of my photography. Throughout my oeuvre, I have also extensively explored the possibilities of perspective. I consider every optical means that may be necessary, and for that reason I organize my viewpoints with care. I rarely photograph in passing. There is almost always a process of research beforehand. That said, I do not underestimate incidental photographs, but I usually remake them, hopefully with greater awareness and precision. To arrange perspective, I often make use of cherry pickers and occasionally helicopters. This gives me the freedom to achieve the composition I have in mind. In my work, the tension between the gaze of the outsider and that outsider’s involvement with their surroundings is deliberately pushed to the forefront. An overarching subject is the human living environment, the city as both architectural and social space, and the tension between those two. Recurring subthemes include globalization, migration, trauma, climate change, tourism, industry, representation, urbanization, and the world economy.