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How did you approach the world of
photography?
It was at about the age of 25, when I realized that, by
taking photos, I could give my interpretation of things
and especially of people. I don't feel the photographic
mission, nor am I obsessively with my camera in hand
to capture images. I tell things. There's a moment
when they have to be told. It's a precise, sacred,
unique moment. For the rest, I live.
Could you do a job without passion, for
a person like you who you made your
passion a profession?
I'm 55 years old and spent, after adolescence, the
first 15 as a professional athlete and the second 20
shooting photos. I've managed to make two passions,
also two quite common ones, a profession. So when
you talk about a job without passion I don't know what
you're talking about. Then of course things are never
as they seem. To those people who haven't taken the
risk to fully live their vocations, it seems a paradise.
But of course it isn't. Living on your own skills brings a
lot of casual work, many doubts, many frailties.
How do you choose and are chosen by
your customers?
There is no criteria.
Once I remember that a guy of an Agency in Paris took
me on because he loved my nudes and asked me to
do publicity photos for a television brand that didn't
involve any human figure. Another one, an Italian-
German person, loved my pictures of the Indians in the
middle of the Amazon forest and made me photograph
a model in lingerie lying in the abandoned and bare
expanse of El Mirage in California. Everyone has
some projections. Almost no one has a real idea. It was
once quite simple. You had an agent, you went on an
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appointment and maybe they took you on.
Today I only hear people talking about how many
"likes" they have on Instagram and I will not comment
on this.
You don't seem the type of person that
isolates himself in a genre (at least
judging by your pictures), right?
There are two types of artists. The multifaceted
and the obsessive ones. The obsessive ones
(those who always do the same work and find the
"universal" in the repetition) can be more easily
recognized.
I am one that changes island three times in a
week's holiday in Greece, I quickly get bored. I've
chosen photography because it gives me access
to any world, which I feel curious about. Famous
places, celebrities, or just interesting.
Rock stars, Nobel prizes, beautiful models,
shamans, artists I love, opened their homes and
sometimes their hearts. I find it a great opportunity
and I feel lucky for that. To track down a map of
one's life through the faces that you meet.
Let's talk about you. Is there anything
confidential you've never said at any
interview and you want to tell us?
You read an interview to track an identity (to take
inspiration or to criticize). It's the job of a lifetime,
especially that of an artist, to look for a precise
and recognizable identity. The funny thing is that
when you have it (that is, when you understand your
direction and above all your limits) you wonder if that
was really what had to make sense of all your life.
Are you NIGHT or DAY?
Night & Day 24hr with a break every three days!
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