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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

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I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

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It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

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The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting.

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Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

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There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

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To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.

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My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.

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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.

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Biography

Nationality: Peruvian

Type: Photographer

Born: October 30th, 1954

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