All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
Life is too short to be complicated by rules, live it big
For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
Some things happen by accident - embrace them.
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
