Interview: Dave Thompson

What equipment did you use? 

Fuji rdp100 film

Haslsselblad film camera

Large tripod

Bowens quad lighting

1/8 warm up filter 

90mm lens

What was the meaning or purpose of the shoot?

Primarily it was a test shoot however after shooting loads of girls in a blank background, he found that the background is very important. The narrative is very basic in that it's simply about to have sex with that girl.

What drove you to use transparency film?

At the time, if you wanted to be set apart from the amateur photographers, this is what you used.  

What or who were your influences? 

Ian sprat, was a page three photographer for the daily mail. Dave, at that time, wanted to shoot those sort of photographs as his career.