Patrick Demarchelier Quotes

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.

I never set out to be a photographer.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

I love working with photographers.