RB: Very frustrated. I had a very serious bout with it a year ago and it really affected me badly. I saw a campaign that I thought was blatant plagiarism.
LC: Who shot it?
RB: I can't say. I had a number of phone calls saying "we really liked your campaign," but it wasn't mine. It's a sign I'm inspiring people and I came to realize that all the photographers I liked have been plagiarized, too.
LC: Where do you see yourself in a few years? Will you have a gallery exhibit besides the one W put on [a small group show highlighting work published in the magazine]?
RB: W is a magazine I really respect. I thought it was really fitting to see those photos in that scale on a wall and to see a room with four different images. I would love to have another show, but I wouldn't want to show in a photography gallery. An art gallery maybe. (Burbridge's children arrive.) I had this really cool idea for a project with my daughter but she didn't enjoy it, so I stopped. Every month of her age I was going to shoot a similar portrait to document her physical growth. I did it for quite a while and then I was going to do it on my son but it became too much pressure on them. Now I won't have a wall of their portraits. I once agreed commercially to shoot children, but it was a nightmare.
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