In your career, the only constant has been change. Is the quest for novelty a core principle that determines your way of life?
I am not someone who really has a style. I wake up every day and do whatever I want that day. I don’t know how some people can take the same picture every day. I can’t do the same thing the same way twice. That’s just the way I’m wired.
“I have had a lack of style in my career because every day I try to do something different. But I always wear the same clothes.”
He’s also been involved in uncountable projects with almost every fashion photography great – one standout name being Juergen Teller, though most notable is his long-term, ongoing collaborative relationship with the ever on-it Dutch photography duo Inez and Vinoodh. It doesn’t stop there though. Right now he’s also working on a photography book as well as trying his hand at experimenting with film – this time, mostly behind the camera.
Does this approach extend to the way you wear clothes?
`Being a photographer who works in magazines, the last thing you want is to wear something that people can tell where it’s from. I think, as you get older, you look stupid if you try to look hip. I have things in my wardrobe that are 30 years old. Every day I try to do something different, but I always wear the same clothes.
What single attribute is essential to what you do?
Good taste - that’s all you really need. Nothing else has to change.
You have said fashion photographers, if they are lucky, are able to pose and attempt to answer their own questions. What has been the persistent, nagging question you’ve always returned to?
Is fashion too frivolous?
What makes a project for you something that you are passionate about?
It has to be something of interest. I am interested in opportunities that let me do something I have always wanted to do. Above all, something new.
PHOTOGRAPHER MARC HOM | WORDS BY MATTHEW FREEMANTLE
