I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.