Occupation: Photographer Birth: May 20, 1955
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are..
Photography has taken me from isolation..
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technic….
I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew..
I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on..
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the h….
I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restric….
I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the ….
The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films..
I come unprepared to shooting. I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, ….
Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything..
I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's ….
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them..
Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also ….
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in ….
My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the p….
I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you ….
There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD..
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town..
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's "Hurt" by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can ….
Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of mysel….