Anton Corbijn

I grew up in this village on an island.

My father was the pastor.

My mother studied theology.

My grandfather was a pastor.

My uncles were pastors.

All the friends of my parents were pastors.

So I grew up in that world where it looked like I was going to have that kind of function too.

So when I was young, I thought, well, I like traveling, so maybe I'll become a missionary.

And two years later, I read in the paper that in New Guinea, they just ate two missionaries.

So that was off the table for me.

And then at many years, I was totally not motivated at school or whatever.

I was terrible at school anyway.

But I was so not motivated because I had no idea what to do with my life.

And then when I was 17, I took these pictures.

Suddenly, after all, photography made me, you know, a bit musicians.

That's why the first, whatever, 15 years or so, I only photographed musicians because that was my interest.

Who else would you photograph?

But that, you know, fortunately, my interest developed to other creative disciplines and

Yeah, that's really interesting.

Yeah.