"I HAVE NO MORBID CURIOSITY FOR CRIME SCENES OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, BUT I AM, BY NATURE, AN INQUISITIVE SORT..."
- Michael Hoppen, Hunger Magazine, Issue #11
"Love life and death have always preoccupied me, and I have always had the propensity to be fascinated by things I know very little about. Crime-solving is a field that benefits hugely from photography, but it was not simply tis paradigm that I found interesting. Very rarely does a crime photographer try to create a 'beautiful' or 'well composed' image. He or she is there to record a scene, individual or object, and to create what is hopefully useful or empirical evidence that will then be used to solve the crime, or identify an individual. It is this disregard for the basic structures and processes of aesthetics that I found absorbing."
OCT, Issue #11
