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58 BAL HARBOUR Looking back, which particular photo shoot in the book stood out for you? I liked the Mikhail Baryshnikov shoot and the Rolling Stones shoot—and pretty much anything I did with Grace Coddington. There are quite a few images of Christy Turlington in this book. Was she your favorite model to work with? She is so good! You just can't take a bad photo of her, and she was one of the easiest models to work with. Her dad was a pilot, so she knows how to travel well and can arrive anywhere ready to go. What made you decide that you didn't want to do your fashion shoots in a studio? That was a bold decision at the time. It was circumstances, really. I didn't have a studio when I began my career, so I met people on the street and took their photos on the spot. I was just lucky that it worked out for me. Your images always look very natural. Nothing looks posed. Yeah, you can't tell what time they come from; they are ageless in a way. There are quite a lot of photos in your book of your kids. Why were they important to include? You know, they change so quickly. And I didn't want to miss those moments. That's why I always took breakfast photos of them growing up. Is there a piece of advice you would give someone starting out in photography today? You really have to be able to do film—digital film—now to make it. What about digital for you? Switching to digital photography from film, was that difficult? It was hard at first. Before, I could show the people around me just one Polaroid at the start and that was it. I didn't have to show anything else until I was done. It was much quicker. Now, everyone is huddled around the computer screens all day and they are endlessly changing the shoes, or the hat, or the dress. But I got used to it. And now I enjoy it. There are quite a lot of photos of ballet dancers in this book. What is the fascination? I started out shooting ballet dancers. But I realized there wasn't enough money in it, so I began doing Keira Knightley in Kenya, 2007 ARTHUR ELGORT