Fashionclick   Photographer Interview

guys who grew up in a very violent environment and one of them is trying to be good, he’s trying to find the light, and his best and only friend is really violent. It’s the odyssey of these two people. It represents the two sides of each one of us: the one that wants to look for the light and the one that basically is bent on self-destruction. 

How are you planning to depict this story, in black and white or in color?

I am filming it in color, but it will always have a black and white feel to it.

How do you plan to achieve the black and white feel with color?

It’s your use of color. If you shoot early in the morning - at dawn - when everything looks blue, it gives you the essence of what black and white does. It’s how you use color, it’s harder to describe than to show.

Finally, where do you see fashion photography going in 1999, right at the end of this century?

I think it’s gonna go back to being sexy, open, friendly and more accessible. It’s gonna be about sensuality again. It has to come back 'cause  It’s almost ten years since it’s been gone from the fashion industry.

There is a lot of sensuality in your pictures...

Yeah.

You feel the physical presence of the person there, be it a man or a woman.

That is my forte. That’s what I think I do best. I am able to get that out of people. I am able to see it and find it and then extract it out of my subject. I don’t know why, or how, but I manage to do it.

Chemistry?

Yes, it’s all chemistry.

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