For your viewing enjoyment.
This episode of CNN's Revealed was broadcast in Feb of 2007. Also found an interview too.
CNN: What is the power of photography?
Testino: It depends what sort of photography you are talking about. Photography conveys either a moment or emotion -- it documents something. In fine art you see this in a different way because usually what you see isn't always what (the photographer) is trying to say. Photography has many different purposes.
My favorite type of photography -- apart from fashion photography -- is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didn't exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot -- I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
If you look at the description of photography it means "writing with light," so I guess it's a combination of capturing a moment at the right speed at the right composition -- different elements come into it.
Read the rest of the Q&As here
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