倫敦, 英國 PRO
面試
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—您上相嗎?
—Not really, mainly because I pull stupid faces when I find myself on the wrong side of the camera.
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—您如何開始從事攝影行業?
—The old story of the couple with no money, an old uni friend with a decent camera and a firm agreement that there’d be no posed photos.
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—您認為一張好照片裡最重要的元素有哪些?
—For me it’s all about the genuine moment, captured without any intervention by the photographer. A moment that would have happened even if the photographer wasn’t there. A moment of action, emotion, great light, etc.
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—您熱愛旅行嗎?
—I do, but in comfort. I’m more of a city person than a wilderness person.
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—您最喜歡這個職業的哪個部分?
—Working for myself and (kinda) gatecrashing parties.
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—您最不喜歡這個職業的哪個部分?
—The assumption by some that I’m at the wedding to take control of everything and to take boring, posed photos of the guests.
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—攝影的前景如何?
—Not sure I even know what the ‘present’ of wedding photography is. I just do what I do and hope enough people each year want that.
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—您如何應對批評?
—Depends who it’s coming from and how constructive it is.
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—攝影有什麼潮流?
—Always somebody doing something that everybody else copies until something else comes along. Trends get old quickly (see ‘couple in rain with flashgun’, etc.)
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—客戶選擇攝影師的標準有哪些?
—Approach is key for me. They either want to just get on and enjoy their wedding and have a record of it, or they want to spend the day modelling for pieces of art or fashion photography (or somewhere in between). A connection with the photographer’s portfolio, and a desire to see themselves in those images, is a good guide.
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—通常不會被注意,但攝影師卻能留意的細節有哪些呢?
—I don’t think there is anything specific. A good wedding photographer will have an eye for a moment or an interesting composition or great light that most won’t have, but the key thing is that when you’re employed to shoot a wedding you approach it from a different angle to a friend or family member who is there to enjoy the wedding. I am paid to be observant. Plus, I see what the common people are doing. I’m there to photograph everybody, not just the couple.
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—您認為哪個人可以被視為21世紀的代表人物?
—For me, whoever does the most to increase education and encourage the use of reason and logic in decision-making from the top to the bottom of social and political hierarchy.
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—您想拍誰?
—Anybody that trusts me completely and who will ignore me.
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—您有任何職業禁忌嗎?
—I won’t work for people or companies that I perceive to be helping to make the world a worse place.
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—您想和誰一起拍攝?
—Nobody. I like working alone.
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—您會擔心什麼?為什麼?
—Time and money and my misguided perception that I have a shortage of both.
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—您人生中印象最深刻的一刻是什麼?
—Completing this interview.
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—如果您是個卡通、小說或電影角色,您想成為誰?為什麼?
—Butthead from Beavis & Butthead, because he.. he… he. You said would. He.. he…
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—誰能在生命中激發您的靈感?為什麼?
—I’m not good at absorbing or recognising inspiration.
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—您是希望被喜愛或是被景仰呢?
—Depends who is doing the liking and respecting.
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—您在工作上犯過最大的錯誤是什麼?
—Running up the stairs of Marylebone Town Hall with a zoom lens precariously perched in a jacket pocket didn’t end well.
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—當您要去旅行時,您會帶什麼?為什麼?
—Clothes, money, phone, a camera of some sort.
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—在您擁有的物品中,有任何您希望沒買過的嗎?為什麼?
—A Panasonic GF1 that I barely used and that my wife dropped and damaged after I’d had it for a couple of weeks. I don’t get on with cameras without viewfinders.
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—您如何學習拍出更好的照片呢?
—Take more pictures.
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—身為攝影師,誰的作品對您影響最大?
—Nobody specific, but seeing in 2004/2005 that a documentary approach was a viable option for wedding photography was the push I needed to start doing it myself.
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—您想用自己的照片說些什麼?
—The truth.
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—讓您持續拍照的動力是什麼?
—People keep paying me to come to their weddings.
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—您的雙親應該更加或是更不嚴厲呢?
—My mum got it pretty much spot on.
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—如果能回到過去,您會有什麼不同舉動呢?
—I would make better use of my enquiring mind and study science or engineering, so that I could be of more use to the world and future generations.
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—您對在其他星球上的生命有什麼看法呢?
—Presumably, but we’ll wipe out life on our own planet before we make contact with life on others.
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—誰是您的英雄?
—I don’t really have any. They’d only ruin it at some point.
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—您不重視誰?
—Those who promote fear, intolerance and lies to feed their own greed.
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—您空閒時會做些什麼?
—I do DIY, or I play my ukulele, or I go to (mostly metal) gigs or I do a crossword.
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—您的哪一面是公眾不曾看到過的?
—Most of my sides. I’m a fairly private person.
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—您什麼時候會對自己的作品完全滿意?
—Dunno, it hasn’t happened yet.
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—您認可男女性的傳統角色嗎?
—Like most traditions, best left in the past. Live and let live.
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—您容易交到朋友嗎?
—I really don’t. I’m friendly and approachable and I get on with most people, but I’ve been burnt too many times so I keep most people at a few arms’ length.
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—您希望在哪裡生活?
—In a huge warehouse apartment in NYC, or in a cosy old manor house surrounded by a few acres, or on top of a hill in Scotland.
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—結婚後還有人生嗎?
—It’s just a certificate and a great party. As you were.
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—您有最愛的笑話嗎?請告訴我們。
—“Some people like cats and some people don't. Apparently the Pope's a cataholic.” Milton Jones
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—您喜歡狗還是貓?
—I prefer cats to dogs, but I don’t like the damage they do to your house, so am currently resisting my family’s desire to own one.
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—您討厭誰或什麼?
—Overuse of hate.
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—人生中最棒的事是:
—Freedom. And Five Guy’s Bacon Cheeseburger, All The Way.
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—人生中最煩人的事是:
—Procrastination. And people constantly changing speed on the motorway when I’m using cruise control.
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—您希望改變自己的哪一點?
—I’d like to have more self-belief.
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—您希望改變世界的哪些方面?
—I’d like to ensure everyone gets a quality education and eradicate dependence on myth, legend and violence.
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—您能為新進攝影師提供一些建議嗎?
—Take your own (decent) food, and wear comfortable shoes.
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—如果外星人來到地球,而您是他們第一個遇見的人,您會跟他們說什麼?
—That I want a ride in their spaceship.
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—如果您被邀請去拍攝電影,那會是什麼類型的電影呢?
—A very dark and gory horror film.
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—明天我會去做...
—…something less boring instead.