Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.
I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.
