Rose Tinted Ghost

“I have been taking almost the same picture for twenty years, a fashion picture: a dress, a woman, or rather, a woman, a dress, close-up or full-length, sitting, standing, inside, outside, in the shade or in the light, summer or winter, no matter. I photograph privilege, illusion, evanescence, unlikeness, beauty. Then I seek for an emotion. It seems an even more hopeless quest.

I’ve often envied those who photograph life. I avoid it. I start from nothing, I make up a story which I leave untold, I imagine a situation which doesn’t exist, I wipe out a space to invent another, I shift the light, I render everything unreal. And then I try. I watch out for what I didn’t expect, I wait to see what I can’t remember, I undo what I put together, I hope for hazard, but more than anything, I long to be struck as I shoot.

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