“Eureka!” I cried metaphorically. He gets paid to photograph beautiful girls! If that job really exists, then I want to do it! The rest of my life has been spent in pursuit of that goal. How to become a successful fashion and celebrity photographer when I knew nothing about fashion, and next to nothing about fashion photography. It didn’t help that everyone I asked told me that it couldn’t be done. I left school immediately and, after a two- year foundation course, I applied to study Visual Communication at Wolverhampton Faculty of Art and Design. I specialised in Advertising photography in my second year. I spent most of my time at Art College either in the library flicking through French Vogue, mainly looking for stories by Helmut Newton and my particular favourite photographer Guy Bourdin. Or I was in the studio trying to create my own style of fashion photography.
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1 .HRH Princess Diana 2. Jesse for Sportswear International NYC 3. Beri Smither for Glamour Paris 4. Spike Lee Harper’s & Queen 5. Jack Daniels Concept Man 6. Pascal Pelat for Radius 7. Janine Giddings for The Independent 8. John Armstrong for Davies 1988
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