In 1994, I was at school studying to become a photographer (a car photographer to be exact). American Photo came out with a special issue dedicated in big letters to AVEDON, with a picture of a man covered in bees and a women in front of elephants. Little did I even dream that in five years from studying that issue with its lighting diagrams, peeks into his equipment room and stories about his famous pictures, that I too would be walking every day past a huge print of Dovema and the Elephants to my desk, my desk as assistant to Richard Avedon.
The road to that desk was fairly surreal, I guess like most who ended up working for Dick.