I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I have always adhered to. When I do work that I like, it feels like a great punk song, like a burst of adrenaline. I've always kept this spirit in me, or some sort of connection to it.
Terry RichardsonAt the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.
Terry RichardsonI want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.
Terry RichardsonIt's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.
Terry RichardsonPeople go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to doโthat excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.
Terry Richardson