The churches and cathedrals of Italy's renaissance stir the senses from the moment the threshold is crossed. The sheer volume of the space, the interweaving of textures, the silence, the smells, the artificial light mixing with the diffused daylight, the local patrons, the tourists, the constant renovation; all compete for attention. But for me, the focus has always been the art and the  confessionals: the art provokes fantasies as the confessionals provoke guilt. Policing pleasure pays homage to this dichotomy.

The archive is a partial representation of over 50 years of photography from early environmental observations and provocative curiosities in the 1970s to travel photo-journalism in the the 1980s and 1990s to social and political photo-essays from the start of the century. The actual photographs have all been self-printed starting in the 1970s with dye-transfer prints to present day archival pigmented prints.