“Each work has led on to the next. My endangered language work in the Kalahari has been going on for decades, but then making that work in 1999 was part of me trying to make sense of it too. And the idea of self-portraiture, in Autoportrait, is also a really important part of taking pictures of other people. I think it is important to understand what it is to be on the other side of the camera: vulnerability, and how not to exploit it, is very important.
Even when I was at the Royal College of Art, in order to run away from John Hedgecoe’s daily tutorials, I ended up travelling all over the country, photographing people’s homes as portraits, without them being present.”
Interview by Dale Berning Sawa for The Art Newspaper.
The link to the full interview can be accessed here.