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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

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.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

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.

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.