Anton Corbijn

Yourself works.

Totally.

I mean, that's the code for the arts for sure.

I did, but now it gets mixed up in the books.

I did a book called Econon, which is very overused words, icons.

I mean, when I take a picture, people say it's an iconic picture.

Well, it isn't, you know.

I did quite a lot of cemetery pictures in the 80s.

And, you know, I grew up Protestant and we lived behind, my father's the pastor, we lived behind the cemetery.

in the village.

So I go for the Catholic cemeteries.

They're a lot more outgoing, if you like.

So I like those, and I did serious self-portraits that people might not know.

Yeah, I did self-portraits in the village where I was born because when I was in my 40s, I thought, well, how come I'm still sort of obsessed with this music thing?

You know, that was when I was a teenager.

What happened that I'm so obsessed?

So I went back to the village where I was born and looked around and I realized because there was absolutely nothing that was stimulating me,

I looked elsewhere for the stimulation.

That was music that came from outside that island, across the water.

And then I made a series of self-portraits of me dressed up as musicians who were diseased, but who I had liked at some point in my life.