David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse
"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Bruce Gilden
“Well, look, the idea of doing pictures is not to have arguments, ok?”
—Bruce Gilden (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Scot Sothern
"I have a certain amount of guilt for what I've done with these pictures and the way I've thrown 'em around and splattered these poor women in front of everybody, and sometimes I think I'm wrong and then I sometimes think I'm right, and that's what I live with, you know?"
—Scot Sothern (GUP Magazine)