When you work commercially you can be pushed into situations where you do things that aren't quite right, but you do it that way because somebody is paying you money for that. It is very uncomfortable. So I largely don't try to make a real statement with the commercial work, it is a very watered-down version of what I can do editorially. Having an art director change this and change that and then you end up with something far removed from what is in your heart, you learn to give up and just interpret what the client wants. I tend to only put all my heart and soul into the editorial work and I only work with magazines where they will let me express myself 100 per cent. If you don't compromise it will make a better picture.

From the book: Photo-wisdom: Master Photographers On Their Art by Lewis Blackwell.

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