In Alfred Steffen's artistic vision it is desire, the craving for one another, and voyeunsm that holds humanity together, makes us one people in one world, For him, the world is like a contact foyer in a brothel. He travels the world looking for people in whom the flame of desire burns intensely and wherever he finds them he captures them in his lens and photographs Even when he doesn't, find desire in a person, he still takes the picture. Either way, what emerges is a world crying out for desire, alive with curiosity.

Alfred Steffen spiegelt unsere Kultur und Zivilisation wie eine Bestandsaufnahme der vergangenen zwanzig Jahre.