Nigel Barker Quotes

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

I love working with photographers.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.

I love Instagram and photography.

I never set out to be a photographer.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.