I took the moment and combined the kid with the dog and wanted to make the kiddo ride the dog. On our journey, we drove 200km that day to change locations from each hour to hour, we passed by my house for lunch and my neighbors kids came over (as they did a lot when they were younger – and they would always ask to play photography with me). I had a friend along who wrote about my day and she had a dog with her. (no preproduction, no preplanning, just improvising.) The commission was to produce and shoot a photograph per hour for 24 hours in a row. JVH: It happened on a day when I was working on a commission for a Paris gallery and publisher. PP: How did you get the idea for your “Dreams of Flying” series of photographs?
I think I am a pure photographer, which pulls me out of any photography categories and makes me just deal with one thing: PHOTOGRAPHY. so I have to put a lot of effort into educating people how I work and how we can work together! I really have difficulties with a category, which makes my daily life not too easy either, because people need categories to give me a job. Easiest is always to say that I am an artsy fartsy artist with a camera as I get away with things very easily then (you should see what we do sometimes with people and places… and that’s just funny and people don’t take you serious and wonder what you do – and then you tell them you are an artist and all is good) Which means that the photographer is like an author, telling a story from his point of view. In German there is a word for it that is called ‘Autoren Fotograf’.
PP: How would you describe and categorize your photography? It all started there and then with my friends on an everyday, anywhere basis. I started when I was 13 to take up a camera and start shooting. I was always amazed by all the tricks he did with photography and how he bent reality with very simple and standard tricks of the lens… (and those tricks he just did in his training learning the trade) still for me as a kiddo very impressive. JVH: My dad is a trained photographer and works as the DOP (Director of Photography) at a TV station.
PP: How did you first get into photography?
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