Have you ever photographed someone who had maybe been a role
model of some kind for you, or maybe just admired greatly?
Yes - very early on in my career I was sent to Iceland to photograph Bjork. I had been
listening to that first album of hers all summer and so was a bit of a fan. It actually
kind of got in the way initially, me being a fan, and I had to get past that as quickly as
possible to find the person I wanted to photograph.
What was the most surreal moment you ever experienced during a
photography shoot?
I was shooting a campaign for the Royal Opera House of a Chinese opera singer called
Liping Zhang, in a beautiful area near the Mongolian border. We were assured the
weather would be OK since it was late spring but a freak snowstorm came through,
so we were all freezing and inappropriately dressed and we had to bundle her up in
Chinese army coats to keep her warm, and at the last moment there was so much
snow we couldn’t even drive her to the spot where I wanted to photograph her, so in
order to get her there we had to rent a camel to put her on.
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