Justin Theroux on his Motorcycle on the Bowery.
I’ve been a Terry Richardson fan for a while. I know he takes his lumps as a one trick pony, but criticizing Terry for his style of photography is like coming down on punk music for having only three chords in a song… why would you?
After weeks upon weeks of trying to figure out what camera he uses, I finally realized I could load his shots into Photoshop and then check the metadata to figure it out… lo and behold, he’s using a Ricoh Digital GR III, one of my favorite cameras ever made. I don’t care if it makes me a sycophant, I’m using it again for the moment… reminds me of when I’d try and find how a guitar player got the sound they did and then learned it was from a pedal I already had in my rig. I hope I get the chance to meet this dude on Lafayette St…. nothing more inspiring than finding out it’s not about the gear but the devotion to it. Terry is shooting a Lumix GF-1 recently, but I dig his trashy-ass GR III shots even more.