The gallery is generating work for the masses.
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
The darkroom is just the means to an end.
No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.
Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
