PUPA NEUMANN
I remember the first time I got a camera: it was a tiny little Instamatic with a flash cube. I finally had a traveling companion! I started by photographing my family, then the streets.
Later, when I was in New York, I began photographing people in the street. I met photographer Martine Barrat at the Chelsea Hotel and followed her around for a while.
She was photographing boxers in the Bronx or Harlem. I was young and I thought to myself then that photography could completely take over your life. I found that sexy.
When I returned to Paris, I did press photography for several newspapers, mostly black and white – I was pretty good at it.
One day, someone told me: „If you’re good in black and white, you’re good in colour“.
Something clicked! I dove into colour photography, and it completely changed the way I saw things. I started having real fun: album covers, movie stills, fashion photography, portraits of actors and comedians…
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