I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
I just love the world of photography.
It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.
Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.