Speaking of your own language: How do you manage to bring a new, artistic aspect to places that have been photographed a thousand times?
I’m never primarily concerned with showing where I’ve been – all I want to do is show the feelings a place awakens in me. Nature can be beautiful, fascinating, unpredictable or even disturbing. Sometimes I feel small and powerless within it, sometimes empowered. I indulge myself by playing about in Photoshop and adding fine details to reality.
With your photographs, you create worlds that are partly surreal using a very special colour palette and have christened this style “Mustard Smurf”. How did this aesthetic develop and what is it influenced by?
If your work consists of showing your daily life and you decide to present yourself as always bright, happy and perfect, what should you do on the days when you don’t feel so good? With my colour grading, I don’t try to present something that I’m not or that I can’t be on bad days. This is my personal form of authenticity and a visual language has emerged from this which says who I am in every life situation. Some people like things to be colourful and cheerful. But I like things that are moody, faded, dark, matte and mystical.