Why we find something interesting is a good question and one that goes to the core of the debate about personality. In this day and age of increased commodification of personality, the consensus seems to veer towards the myth theory: all we are and do is determined by other people and our environment.

Where does that leave the pictures we take? Can they ever be truly personal? Or are they just endless and pointless reproduction? The fact that we are constantly bombarded with imagery from a whole variety of sources nowadays only highlights this issue.

In my opinion I agree we are probably much more fragmented than we are taught to believe but there is still something unique that links all the parts.

We all carry images in our head that are very unique to us, amalgamations of our upbringing, subconscious, life experiences, the image crazy society we live in, work of other photographers of course,…

And photography can help to uncover those images. The more you take pictures, after a long while definitely a single-minded voice seems to bubble up: a certain combination of framing, look, composition and subject matter. A voice possibly unique only to yourself.

So rather than a technique, I’m proposing more of a debate. What makes your pictures truly yours?

Let me be the first to break the silence:

It is really hard, because in so many ways these pictures could be argued reproductions.

But anyway, here goes:

I always seem to take extreme close-ups of faces, sneak up on people and catch them unawares with a small camera in an attempt to snap a bit of their face behind the mask. I'm obsessed with various signs wherever I go: the diversity of how people talk to one another in different places around the world is immense. Strange urban concoctions. Intimate scenes of alienation.