BILL CUNNINGHAM

Street Photographer Bill Cunningham has been taking pictures in the streets of New York 1970. He has a passion for taking photos of beauty, people who live outside of the box, and fashion. In 1978 his pictures were featured in the New York Times and since then he has had his own column in the Times each week featuring the latest fashion trends on the runway and on the streets. He is a very humble man who believes that if you look for beauty you will find it. He has never taken any money from anyone because he says that once your getting paid you cannot be free with your pictures, you have to do what people tell you and they own your pictures. "Freedom is the most expensive thing in life" that is a quote that he said in his documentary "Bill Cunningham's New York". He lives in a tiny apartment in New York after getting kicked out of his apartment in Carnegie Hall. He goes to work every morning at the New York times and they have given him another column in the New York times but this time it was online where he audibly describes the latest trends of the week based on all of the outfits he has seen and taken pictures of.    

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/bill_cunningham/index.html

 I picked him as my favourite photographer because he really inspired me and he is so wise and has taught me so much. He has shot at fashion shows for designers such as Oscar de la Renta and he is very close friends with Anna Wintour, the editor and chief of Vogue. When she goes out she will avoid every photographer but Bill and she loves all of his photos.

Bill is now 84 and still biking all around New York taking amazing photos, i think he should be an inspiration to all photographers!