“Last November I went to New York for the first time in two years, for an event in the rather big gallery space, complete with library and cafe, of the Aperture house in the Chelsea gallery district. In the show titled TKY I made books containing about a hundred of my prints and handed them directly to the numerous visitors who had come to receive their reserved copies. The venue was packed with lots of New Yorkers, among them my friends Gerard Malanga and Larry Clark.

After doing this for two busy yet very pleasant days, I took some time off for a trip to Coney Island, where I enjoyed an enormously colourful afternoon. However the real thrill came later in the evening, when I took a dive into the billboard jungle of Times Square. The adrenalin rush the experience of bathing in the sparkling beams of light gave me made this the sexiest moment of my stay.”