My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Donโt think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And donโt think about style. Itโs all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
David LaChapelleThere are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?
David LaChapelleI love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.
David LaChapellePeople will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
David LaChapelle