Occupation: Photographer Birth: November 23, 1944
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn….
I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make….
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a ….
I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have t….
The woman is always more important than the clothes..
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pic….
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In t….
I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images..
A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably n….
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into yo….
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a ….
I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused o….
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that ….
I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she ….
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and ….
My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be t….
Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anyt….
Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, be….
I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend a….
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title..
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest..