I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
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