Fashion should be fun and with my photography I love to create those fun moments.

Backstage

Me, on Pedestrian Daily

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and Iek in a Milan Taxi.
So my friend Kim Greenway put me in touch with Ashley Chang who is the editor of pedestrian.tv .
So we met up and Ashley interviewed me about my backstage work.
So if that interests you , click here to read the interview on pedestrian daily's site
Love his intro though which I'll share, as I just got back from Europe, and was no longer in the mood to shave and the 5 day growth had turned more into a beard

I'm not too sure what to make of Sonny Vandevelde when I first meet him for this interview. His salt and pepper beard, bucket hat and affable demeanor makes me think he once worked in a surf shop. The term "salty sea dog" seems particularly apt and I'm not too sure why. Surprisingly that assumption is only half true because (though he loves surfing and used to manage a surf shop) Vandevelde now documents some of the biggest fashion shows in the world.

Balenciaga, Comme Des Garcons and Alexander McQueen are the only labels to have eluded Vandevelde's lens thus far. I say that because it's far easier on my wrists, sanity and time to list the shows he hasn't documented backstage. As I'll learn over the course of our hour long conversation Vandevelde is warm (which may explain his easy rapport with the modelling set), an engaging raconteur and a photographer who's as prolific as he is talented. Read on to find out about Jean Charles de Castelbajac's reaction to Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno stunt, tips for getting backstage and why you shouldn't take Paris Hilton's picture.




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