Photography

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"Anything that triggers you to take a picture is a creative and personal decision . That is the moment that you're saying, I need that . I need to see more of that. This is what I've been looking for and no one else could give it to me . That's what makes your work specific. That's how people can recognize your work."

Katja Rahlwes in a conversation with TI

The Louis Vuitton Don would blanche!

I Will McBride is a cornucopia of beautiful photography and powerful design

I completely stumbled onto the work of American photographer Will McBride at the OFR store in Paris.

Hedi Slimane celebrates the legacy that is Courtney Love

Photographed by Steven Klein for Vogue Paris Feb 2009

Just before the All-Lara Stone Feb issue of Vogue Paris went on the stands, the internet was hit with a burst of imagery allegedly from the Steven Klein edit titled "Lara Fiction Noire". Yet when the magazine finally emerged several of those powerful images were not in the proper editorial. A casual trace revealed those out-takes had come from the stevenkleinstudio.com website, in a flash series titled "Uncensored". Whatever the vagaries behind what was published and what was not published lay a fascinating story of passion on the part of the photographer and a testament to the burgeoning power of the internet as a vital (and viral) distribution center of insider imagery. Already this editorial has rippled across the fashion groupie radar as one of the most controversial series of imagery thus far this year. With those thoughts as the backdrop TI emailed Mr Klein with a couple of questions for this exclusive interview. This is what he had to say...

Mind Control Made Easy by Joe Lally

Madonna and a young man named Jesus by Steven Klein for W

Christina Kruse: Women: Photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Purple Fashion S/S 09

Stephen Shames Ralph Jumps, Bronx, 1977 Vintage gelatin silver printed 1985 17 1/2 x 12 inches

Sarah Stephens from Chadwick Tyler's "Tiberius"

I was really happy for Chadwick to hear that his debut exhibit of a new series of photographs titled "Tiberius" has come together. The opening of this show is going to be such a thing. I'm there with bells on because the thought of a new generation of young photographers fearlessly expressing their point of view is why we wake up in the mornings.