My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.
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