My work is about silence, peace, harmony and quiet observation. I have lived in cities as diverse as The Hague and Rome. The latter is a city that is cacophonous but even in Rome I search for those quiet, reflective moments that centre the spirit and help me see the poetry in my subjects. Cartier-Bresson spoke of capturing the “decisive moment.” I look for what Italians call the suggestivo, which might or might not be in a moment. It is about evoking through an image feelings, sometimes undefined, that come from deep within ourselves but that transcend to the universal.