Limit your tools, focus on one thing, and just make it work… you become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.
- Anton Corbijn
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I believe that photography is a very simple affair. I meet people—and the camera is only something like a recording machine. My work has nothing to do with the circus that other people create, although of course that can also result in an excellent photo.
- Anton Corbijn
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As an artist, you say something about yourself in your work. That is what distinguishes your own work from that of others.
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My work is not quite perfect. Perhaps it still contains something of life. Because perfection often prevents the work from breathing.
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... yes, I’ve become a little more professional—which I don’t really want to be but I can’t help it at some point.
- Anton Corbijn
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The blurriness and the grain that I use, for me, is close to life. I find things that are very static and very sharp and very well-lit and all that is not how I experience life.
- Anton Corbijn
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I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
- Anton Corbijn
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I feel the imperfection is much closer to how life is than perfection.
- Anton Corbijn
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I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.
- Anton Corbijn
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I’m a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don’t think I’m very advanced. That never interested me.
- Anton Corbijn
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My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
- Anton Corbijn
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