Fotograf Magazine

To what extent are your photographs a documentary of vanishing reality, and to what degree are they timeless “images”? In an imaginary balance between the matter-of-fact descriptive record of reality and a kind of inner, dream-like perspective, do you tend towards the latter?

I do not see my photographs as purely documentary. The process of taking leave is an emotional affair, and it is emotion that I am after in the first place. Looking at these irrevocably vanishing and helpless little shops evokes in me an intense melancholy, which is what I try to capture in my photography.