How did you come up with the visual approach?
“I first saw some Herero women walking across the desert outside Swakopmund on the Skeleton Coast and the Namib desert. This image was seared on my mind and I always wanted to make the pictures in a similar manner. I wanted to use the desert as a kind of backdrop, which suggests a sense of timelessness, ambiguity and space, and at the same time throws all the attention on the subject. It’s a surreal story and I think the images reflect that.“