My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.