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My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.

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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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