Gert: You have an outspoken, black and white, poetic  'image-language' , so I want to ask you if are you influenced by the pictorial, romantic photography of the beginning of the past century (genre Stieglitz etc.) ? Ester: No I don't think so. For me, I get more influenced by a good movie or a novel. Honestly I am not even that familiar with the old masters of photography. Gert: How do you relate yourself to the contemporary colour photography ? Ester: In the end it is the image and not the colour that makes the photo a remarkable one I guess... but of course there is this kind of hype in colour photography right now but i think it is less the problem of the colour than of the images themselves that are being presented as contemporary photography that sometimes I just don't understand. On the other hand, I just don't care too much about what is contemporary and what isn't. Gert: You are very consequent in your style of photographing : do you never want to mix different style of images (black and white mixed with color, sharp with unsharp, ... Ester: If you have a closer look at my work you will find some colour work too. I am just not that used to working in colour but I do take colour photos too! I think I have a big mix of different styles. I usually work with all kind of cameras and formats, films, etc In