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… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
