Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
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.
! 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.
My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.