Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Patrick DemarchelierFashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.
Patrick DemarchelierFor me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.
Patrick DemarchelierSex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
Patrick DemarchelierTake pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.
Patrick DemarchelierI love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.
Patrick DemarchelierWhen people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.
Patrick DemarchelierWhen you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Patrick DemarchelierMy dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Patrick DemarchelierThe movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
Patrick Demarchelier