This is the view of Pierre Thomas Karkau, a man who loves life and who sees photography as an extension of his being. His technique with the camera is not rehearsed, structured, but innate, free of popular aesthetics.

He avoids, as he puts it "realistic trash." He doesn't paint his bodies in oil or disguise them with phoney props or bogus settings. His work is not conceptional, contemporary, classical, colour or black and white. It refuses to sit neatly in a drawer marked with a label: the work is as individual as the man and this is evident in his compelling images.

It is Pierre Thomas Karkau's attitude to life that drew him into the world of fashion photography. That was more than twelve years ago, when I came to know Pierre personally... MORE