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You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you can do it for a little bit, but loud people are loud, and people who are not, are not.

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Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

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When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

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I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

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I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

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At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

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Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

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Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

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In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

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I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

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Biography

Nationality: Peruvian

Type: Photographer

Born: October 30th, 1954

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