I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he’d always say, ‘I am going to shoot you’ and I would always cry.
I used to live in a hostel with Bihari roommates. They used to be very excited about getting their pictures clicked, and since there weren’t any mobile phones back then, they used to have a photographer accompany them everywhere. Thus, my character’s personality and the photographer were incorporated into ‘Dabangg.’
I’ve been a photographer all these years… I haven’t been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that’ll never happen again – it’s a bit weird when you think about it.
My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
Had I not become a singer, I may have been a photographer.
My dad’s an amazing photographer, and he loves a Sunday market. So the house was full of all the stuff he’d buy, and frame.
I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.
As a young girl, being a chef did not cross my mind – I wanted to conquer the world. I wanted to play with my brother and the boys. I wanted to be a famous photographer.
My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.
Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.
You know, my dad wasn’t a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that’s really been the basis of everything I’ve been doing since.
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object – ‘muse,’ if you will, ‘model,’ whatever you call us. It’s that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor – no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.
I’ve been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer… That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did ‘Love Story’, which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call ‘real’ work.’ I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer’s assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.
I started modeling at 14. It’s simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people’s ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
If you have a cool personality, the photographer will want to work with you because he or she will have more fun on set.
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.
People think: ‘If this photographer’s looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it’s okay if I do.’ I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
Sometimes when I’m being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn’t have a nice smile, and I shouldn’t smile in photos.
It’s very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who’s a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like ‘Life of Look’, their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.
Many people send me letters in England saying, ‘I want to be a war photographer,’ and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There’s wars going on out there; you don’t have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.
I’m a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying ‘I’m a photographer.’
I guess that’s what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn’t look at my face once. I was humiliated.
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 like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That’s what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I’ve ever known.
I’m a street photographer, but I’m interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there’s something very romantic about a circus.
I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.
I’m still learning and I’m still growing as a photographer.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
You have to keep in mind that fashion is constantly changing and every runway show, every designer and every photographer – they are going to have a different vision in mind.
By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
I’m not very daring in my street style, usually because there’s a photographer around!
Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They’ll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don’t have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
I’m a documentary photographer. That’s what I’ve always wanted to be; that’s where my heart and soul is.
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I’ve ever worked with.
All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.
I realized I didn’t want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I’ve always been surrounded by creative people.
It’s funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.
As a photographer, I don’t really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for ‘National Geographic’ might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we’re in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that’s the fun of it.
I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I’ll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau’s wife and the mother of our three children – but I also want to be a working photographer.
