I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
— Mario Testino
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
