Robert Diament

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Now today I am feeling like I have a vocation because I think I've always had this creative calling and whether it was making music for a long time before I worked in the art world, I never wanted to have a kind of conventional pedestrian life in a way.

I think I was always seeking something a bit more exciting and

Today's guest, from all the research I've been doing, definitely had this calling as well to do things his own way.

And he, for a very long time, was quite specific and particular about the kinds of images he wanted to make.

He's a world-renowned photographer.

He's also a filmmaker.

I mean, there's so many different ways to describe him because his creativity has been very expansive.

And I know that last year was his 70th birthday, but it was also celebrating 50 years of his contribution to culture, whether that be the kind of hundreds and hundreds of images that he's taken of incredible musicians and creatives.

When I was growing up, I was really inspired by his images of Nirvana and Depeche Mode in particular, but also people like The Killers, who were kind of adjacent to when I used to make music, and also U2, of course.

Recently, there's been an incredible book that's been put together with M&M Paris to accompany an extraordinary exhibition, which is going to be at Fotografiska in Berlin, and it opens on the 8th of May.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to exploring more than five decades of taking photographs and also filmmaking.