1. Which photographers have influenced your work?
Irving Penn, Cornell Kapa, David Douglas Duncan, Gjon Mili, Arnold Newman and I wanted to be Gordon Parks because he worked for Life Magazine and seemed to do everything from reportage to fashion.
2. What is the one thing about the photography business that you wish you had learned earlier in your career
I wish I had used every single opportunity to its fullest to capture what I was exposed too something I learned the value of later in my life.
3. What advice would you give someone thinking about starting a career in photography?
If you are getting to try to get rich try a different field. Follow the passion be confident but keep your ego in check.
4. Where do you get your inspiration for photography? How do you generate fresh ideas?
The excitement of the world surrounding me.
5. What is your most memorable photo or photo shoot that you have done?
Marilyn Monroe is probably my most remembered photo shoot. But I just completed one of the biggest most exciting and rewarding assignement : An Homage to the Italian Cinema 50 pages in Vanity Fair Italy with an exhibition at the Museum of the Triennale in Milan where I am writing this!
6. What other piece of equipment (besides a camera or a computer) do you always have on a shoot?
Delkin Compact Flash Cards.
7. Please name five important accessories you always carry with you on a shoot?
Delkin card reader, carbon fiber Manfrotto tripod, , strobe lights, white sheet, black cloth, gaffers tape.
