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My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

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I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

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When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

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Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

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A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

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I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

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Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

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Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

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A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

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I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

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Biography

Nationality: Peruvian

Type: Photographer

Born: October 30th, 1954

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