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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
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.
I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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.