Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body,...
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
