Hi everybody.
First of all sorry about my English level. I'm spanish and there are some things that I don't understand and others that I don't know how to explain but I can understand the whole meaning.
Now, I want to give some kind of explanation about what you say here. I didn't wanna do it but I was always afraid of that, and it finally happened.
I always say clearly (maybe not in my blog but in some interviews and when I speak with someone about my work) that, at the moment, fashion photography is for me a game, more than a job. I can't publish all the images I'd like because I live in a small city where I can't get anything (clothes, hairdressers, models, make up...) for my shootings, that's why I'm always in all the credits of my pictures. Then, I created my blog just to do that: publish my pictures and people could see them, and that's why I include all the graphic design in the pictures, the letters, credits and all, to feel in certain way that I'm publishing my pictures the way I'd like them to be published.
I always says that I'm wholy influenced by Vogue Paris and fashion photographers like Hedi Slimane, Testino, Meisel, Terry Richardson... so, when I take the same fonts, and the same design, colours... it's just a wink, but a BIG, CLEAR AND VISIBLE wink to let people know that I do it, because what I don't want to, is to take some pictures inspired in a Marc Jacobs campaign (for example) and not saying it, just for the same reason, because I'm a SUPER-AMATEUR photographer, maybe if someday I gorw up and I'll be able to copy anything without giving explanation, but, by now I prefer to keep clear where I'm taking my influences from.
That's all, just not take it serious and consider it like a game, where I play to make shootings and later I "dream" that they are published on French Vogue or wherever.
Michael.
it just seems so gimmicky and strange. or perhaps i'm missing something and this is the whole point ? is he making fun of himself ? or vogue paris ?
