"The tendency to read meanings in photographs is by no means new. This was unexpectedly thrown into relief during a travel to India. Along the Ganges, the biggest challenge was to keep exoticism and blatant clichés out of my pictures – as there can hardly be any country carrying a larger visual luggage. How to take photographs enabling the viewer along this river, without stereotypical interpretations colouring my shots? Through the Himalayan foothills, a possible answer happened upon me."