摄影师Mark Wallis

—您上相吗？

—Not really, mainly because I pull stupid faces when I find myself on the wrong side of the camera.

—您是如何进入摄影行业的？

—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.

—在您看来，一张好的照片最重要的组成部分有哪些？

—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.

—您热爱旅行吗？

—I do, but in comfort. I’m more of a city person than a wilderness person.

—对于您的职业，您最喜欢什么地方？

—Working for myself and (kinda) gatecrashing parties.

—对于您的职业，您最不喜欢什么地方？

—The assumption by some that I’m at the wedding to take control of everything and to take boring, posed photos of the guests.

—摄影的前景如何？

—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.

—您如何应对批评？

—Depends who it’s coming from and how constructive it is.

—摄影有什么趋势？

—Always somebody doing something that everybody else copies until something else comes along. Trends get old quickly (see ‘couple in rain with flashgun’, etc.)

—客户选择摄影师时应该遵循什么标准？

—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.

—有哪些摄影师可以捕捉的通常会被忽略的细节？

—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.

—在您看来，什么人可以成为 21 世纪的代表人物？

—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.

—您想要为谁拍摄？

—Anybody that trusts me completely and who will ignore me.

—您有职业禁忌吗？

—I won’t work for people or companies that I perceive to be helping to make the world a worse place.

—您想与谁一起拍摄？

—Nobody. I like working alone.

—您担心什么？为什么担心？

—Time and money and my misguided perception that I have a shortage of both.

—在生命中，给您印象最深的时刻是什么？

—Completing this interview.

—如果有机会成为一个动画、文学或电影人物，您想成为谁？为什么？

—Butthead from Beavis & Butthead, because he.. he… he. You said would. He.. he…

—在生命中谁鼓舞了您？为什么？

—I’m not good at absorbing or recognising inspiration.

—您非常受人喜欢或尊敬吗？

—Depends who is doing the liking and respecting.

—您在工作中犯过的最大错误是什么？

—Running up the stairs of Marylebone Town Hall with a zoom lens precariously perched in a jacket pocket didn’t end well.

—当您准备去旅行时，要携带什么？为什么？

—Clothes, money, phone, a camera of some sort.

—在您拥有的器材中，是否有一些是您后悔购买的？为什么？

—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.

—您如何提高自己以拍摄出更好的照片？

—Take more pictures.

—谁的作品对您作为摄影师的影响最大？

—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.

—您想对自己的照片说什么？

—The truth.

—什么激励您继续拍摄下去？

—People keep paying me to come to their weddings.

—您的父母是否应该更严厉或变得温和一点呢？

—My mum got it pretty much spot on.

—如果能够回到过去，您会有什么不同的举动？

—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.

—对于其他星球上的生命，您有何看法？

—Presumably, but we’ll wipe out life on our own planet before we make contact with life on others.

—谁是您的英雄？

—I don’t really have any. They’d only ruin it at some point.

—您不尊重谁？

—Those who promote fear, intolerance and lies to feed their own greed.

—您在业余时间会做什么？

—I do DIY, or I play my ukulele, or I go to (mostly metal) gigs or I do a crossword.

—公众从不会看到您的哪一面？

—Most of my sides. I’m a fairly private person.

—什么时候您对自己的作品完全满意？

—Dunno, it hasn’t happened yet.

—您主张男人和女人的传统角色吗？

—Like most traditions, best left in the past. Live and let live.

—您很容易就会交到朋友吗？

—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.

—您想生活在什么地方？

—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.

—结婚之后生活的质量高吗？

—It’s just a certificate and a great party. As you were.

—您有最喜欢的玩笑吗？请告诉我们。

—“Some people like cats and some people don't. Apparently the Pope's a cataholic.” Milton Jones

—您喜欢狗还是喜欢猫？

—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.

—您讨厌谁，或者厌恶什么？

—Overuse of hate.

—生活中最美好的事情是：

—Freedom. And Five Guy’s Bacon Cheeseburger, All The Way.

—生活中最让人烦心的事情是：

—Procrastination. And people constantly changing speed on the motorway when I’m using cruise control.

—您希望改变自己的哪些方面？

—I’d like to have more self-belief.

—您希望改变世界什么地方？

—I’d like to ensure everyone gets a quality education and eradicate dependence on myth, legend and violence.

—对于刚入行的摄影师，您能提供一些建议吗？

—Take your own (decent) food, and wear comfortable shoes.

—如果外星人来到地球并且您是他们见到的第一个人，您会跟他们说什么？

—That I want a ride in their spaceship.

—如果您被邀请去拍一部电影，您希望是什么流派？

—A very dark and gory horror film.

—明天我会去做...

—…something less boring instead.