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A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE SCENES WITH PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD NICHOLSOCTOBER 12-18, 2009

ST LOUIS FASHION WEEK

WHY DO YOU PHOTOGRAH?

I have always loved learning about new things and visiting new places and then telling people about them. I am always reading things or hearing things on NPR

and then telling myfriends about it. Photography is another way I can do this.

It is a way to explore and record life and then say to people

“Look at this! Isn’t it fantastic!”

WHAT APPEALS TO YOU ABOUT CAPTURING FURTIVE

MOMENTS?

I love the fact that it is reality and not posed. That the photograph I just took

actually happened. That I caught this perfect fraction of a moment where

everything came together to tell a story, that is an amazing thing.

You can almost close your eyes and take a beauti-

ful photo in Italy. That re-ally made me look harder to find those photos and

situations that are often overlooked. Instead of

photographing the Duomo in Milan, I photographed

the guy who sold flowers, reading his newspaper.

Wow. These are beautiful photos.

Wow. These are beautiful photos.

WHAT DRAWS YOU TO FASHION?

As a photographer I love the juxtaposition of the glossy final product with the chaos

and reality that goes into making it. At fashion week, the audience sees this per-

fectly made-up and put together model on the catwalk, but backstage before the

show the models are doing homework, sleeping, practicing their walk or texting.

Maybe this page has text but no pull-out quote or other larger info. Some more from Jabberwocky:

He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he

sought – So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in

thought And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with

eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And

burbled as it came!

I remember once I was photographing a carnivale in a small

town and the piazza was packed so tightly that you could barely move

and this guy whips out this manganeseum car flare and lights it up.

Of course, a huge fight breaks out as people try to get him to put it out.

Instead of trying to get away I foundmyself trying to get closer to take

photos! That is something I never thought I would have done.

Wow. These are beautiful photos.

Wow. These are beautiful photos.

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InterviewDesign Production Tarra Kieckhaefer

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