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My heros are photographers like Bill Brandt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Edward Steichen and all these genius people that opened up the possibility of doing whatever we want. They were more modern than most of the pictures nowadays.  Even if their photography was simple, it had a magic I often miss in our day when I am looking at pictures.

At the moment I'm making a living doing campaign editorials, selling my pictures in galleries, books and so on. I would love to go on like it is at the moment, I am realizing my ideas which I have collected for years, and for now magazines and clients have somehow decided to let me do what I want. They have stopped trying to turn me around to their ideas and support my work. That's amazing and it took me a long time but now it works. It's funny that the many ideas and inspirations I inhaled over the years are coming out now.

For my clients I'm an easy person to work with, they can either let me do my stuff and support it, or tell me their ideas and I'll work with them. I love to work in a team but I hate people who are... let me call them no-no people. They can just tell you what they don't like and have no ideas of their own. I don't like this kind. I am just as good as my team and from my assistants to the biggest partner, everybody has the same importance to me.

In the future I want to do books, books, photos, and photos and I hope I will have the same fun and love and enthusiasm as today. Actually I'm sure I will.

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