Telling the story of how he came to make the calendar, the photographer talks of his own dreams, and of the efforts and sacrifices that they entailed.

"To make a dream come true, you have to work hard. I've always taken it step by step, reaching one goal at a time, without wanting to get immediately to the top of the ladder. Even though I sometimes think this ladder could go on up forever, with the top rung ever further away, I think it's always worth giving yourself increasingly ambitious goals and dreams."

He said that each of the four women focuses on the future and "has her own individuality, her own particular purpose in life, and her own way of doing things. So the underlying theme is that of 'dreams', but the basic idea behind the whole project is that of telling a story in four 'little movies'."