When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

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.

When 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.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.