Will Martin
Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
brightest
I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
nature responsibility whether
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
people
I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.
magazines opportunity projects
One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
easily wedding
You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.
angst behind counts expand modern perfect taken technology trying
Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.
cannot convinced travel
As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.
almost bit fact hence particular popular remains romantic tends wedding
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
kids people
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
change people time type
Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
brown shoot
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
ability drown objects photograph
I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
color commercial obliged palette serious snapshot work
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.