I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

I am not strong on perfection.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.