In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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