"[In the 2000 series 'Anatomy of Control' the artist's] subjects take their own photographs in a controlled environment, turning the usually passive status of pictured children into something more active. Her aim was to demonstrate that, at the level of images, a child “does not have to just be a construct of parental desire”. Babies, as [the photographer] points out, don’t follow instructions very well. You can’t tell them where to look or how to pose. In this sense, they resist conventional photographic manipulation. But at the same time, they have no defence against the act of being photographed, or indeed, looked at..."
- Darian Leader, Extract from the essay 'Primal Scene Photography' from 'Bettina von Zwehl' (Steidl / Photoworks, 2006)