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" Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth. "

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" Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject. "

" It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless. "

" I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of. "

" Only photograph what you love. "

" You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?' "

" When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams. "

" I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist. "

" Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now. "