It would seem superfluous to say that I love photography. Less superfluous, and perhaps interesting to some, is the question why the art of photography should become a person’s passion, and his chosen lifestyle.

Photography is my thing because, like music (my other great passion) it creates an energy. You know, it wakes you up to the world, keeps you alert to possibilities. I’m always looking for the right light, pushing the boundaries, trying to achieve the most I can in what can literally be 1/125^th of a second.

 That’s where the decisive moment lives: in the split second that lies between what has just happened and the question mark of what is about to happen. Finding it is nothing short of exhilarating.

I particularly love the work of Henri Cartier Bresson. He’s always been a hero of mine because of his ability to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. In fact, it was a print of his, given to my mother, that first inspired me to start taking photographs. It’s this Paris shot: Eiffel Tower in the background and this couple in the foreground, doing their thing. I love it. The city sprawled uneasily all over the place, and the constant ­ the Tower ­ like a volcano in the background. Just the sprawl, the constant, and this great moment caught in the middle of it all.

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