Lee Carter: Is Terry Richardson a New Yorker or a So. Cal. kind of guy? Terry Richardson: I think it's not where you're from, it's where you are, and right now I'm in New York. I feel like a New Yorker. LC: Do you have another place in New York, or do you call this studio home? TR: This is it—home, everything. I like how you refer to it as the studio. The French call it le studio. A lot's gone on this couch, let me tell you. LC: Uh, should I get up? TR: No. Just kidding. Sort of. LC: Do you still skateboard?
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TR: The last time I went skateboarding I was hit by a cab. I got a bruised hip and my face was cut up. I realized I shouldn't be skating around the streets of New York City. Safety first. Now I have an indoor skateboard.
LC: You skate in here? TR: Yeah, on my little skateboard, the best $6 I ever spent in a thrift store. We have naked skateboarding contests. That'll be the concept for a future ad campaign, naked skateboarding. LC: Naked skateboarding would be one of your tamer concepts. Has there been a time when you felt you'd gone too far? Too explicit? TR: No, but there are a lot of pictures that have never run. LC: I was thinking on the way over here that you would be ideal as a celebrity photographer for Playboy. Or something raunchier like Penthouse. TR: Well, I'm working on some top secret stuff out in LA. |
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