I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and wanting my mother to put in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people. It's not for a movie; it's not for a magazine. No one's here telling us what to do. We're at my house shooting. I just get to go, "What do you want to do today?" We're… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share
Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity. — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share
I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought,… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?"… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
