You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
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I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.
Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
You adapt to who you're photographing.
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
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