First of all he was a policeman and while working he met a person who gave him the opportunity of becoming a photographer (LUCK).
NOT EXACTLY !!! the only lucky part was to be at the place where this beautiful girl ( later my second wife ) came that day !!!
But she was with a rich man as boyfriend and I was a simple cops ...
So if I had listened my partner who told me to not move and I had not the balls to go to speak with her ( she hated the cops ! ) I will never got the possibility to become her BF and meet this famous star Coluche, later, by her way. And Coluche yes gave me the chance to work on showbiz but only because my images was good and in true the real guy who helped me the most is called Stephane Collaro...
And my entrance to Sipa press with Madonna photos was not the chance, it was 12 hours of suffering stand up with feet in dirty water, and then running to the agency in the night and been the first with the nearest pictures of the stage ...
Then he worked for mode and porn,obviously because other people gave the opportunity to him (LUCK)
NO !!! You have no idea how I get my job at Bauer Group !!! I wanted keep it for my book but in fast explain, I see an annonce for photographer need and I called but it was already two weeks they have engaged the 15 guys they need. Anyway even if they told me no on the phone I went there with my book. The photo director didn't want meet me, so I asked where was the restroom and finaly went inside the building. When I found his office I banged the door and coming in. He was already stand up because going somewhere. He was upset, pushed me in the corridor and told me to go away. I decided to go back in his office and seat down waiting him. he came back more than an hour later, he was very angry that I came inside his office and wanted call security. I just asked him to watch my book and promised to go after. He did it very fast and told me : this is just pictures of people that I can get with a simple phone call to Sipa, Gamma, Sigma. Sorry I'm not interested. Then I gave him my visit card and go. The next day he called me and asked me to come with my photo material. When in front of him he said this :
" Son, I'm sorry for yesterday I was in a bad day. We have our team of photographer but I see you're a guy who has balls, so idea is like this : I will send you every day in binome with another guy to shoot a report. You must beat everyone until day 15th and then you'll be engaged, if I consider any of your work in inferior, I never want see you again. " "I said OK, when do I start ? " "Right now. You take a badge at the reception and you run at metro Auber. There is a fashion défilé, from a new designer called Christian Lacroix with the Esmode school. Our official photographer is already there ... Good luck "
I went there, see the photographer at the end of the podium shooting only the défilé, I went non stop behind the stage, right, left stage and even shoot lot of models changing their clothes. And I make this photo director called Marcel Maystre became a man I will thanks until my death !!! I beat everyone and get engaged two weeks later ...
there he met berth milton and worked for Private (SUPER LUCK)
NO !!! I was doing report for Hot Video and wanted get Berth Milton, father, the myth, the man who has created the first porn magazine of history in 1965. But since many years he didn't want give any interview to anyone. When I did the report with Tereza Orlowski in Hanover, I met a man called Rolf Rham which was the Scandinavian distributor of VTO pictures. He told me that he was a good friend of Michel Ricaud and we went diner together. Then he started speak about Berth Milton, his old friend from the 60th. It makes "gling" in my head and I started to make a plan. I proposed to do a report about his distribution company and he accepted. When I went there I knew Private just produced his first video ever, the Private Mag n°1. I asked Rolf if Private could be interested I promote this production, he said Private could be happy of this opportunity but no way to meet the boss, only Joachim Vallach who did the video. I said I knew Jo since many years ( he was my neighborgh in Paris ) and no need to be in Stockholm for that. So Rolf give me Anett, the Swedish girl on the box cover. And I started a report about her ( fucking her a bit ) and finaly proposed Rolf to tell his friend Berth Milton that a very pretty Swedish reporter want meet him.
First he said no and then asked who is this girl. I told him my plan, I knew a mega bomba fashion model speaking french that I had fucked in Paris 2 years before and I asked her if she could help me. She liked the idea, Rolf too and he proposed to the most complicate man on earth to see this reporter. He said " bring her, I will get a blow job and will not answer any of her question". But when Saskia arrived with me, he became like a little children and don't even take care of my presence. I was supposed to be the photographer, she had translated my french question in Swedish and of course it was perfect. I get the longest interview he ever did. He was so much under charm that he gave her the magazine 100 not even on sale, and cry for a diner with her. She said she will do it, but never did ...
Then when we went out, Rolf was here with Berth Milton junior, accounter of the company, to who he has explained the true version of this interview. First I was very angry but the son told me " Bravo, you have got the impossible, I am speechless of this performance, at the end of the year my father will retired and I'll be the boss.
Give me your phone, I will need someone like you ..."
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And about Larry Flynt it's also not the chance but i'll explain it another day ...
So I consider this sentence
You always need to get yourself into situations of possible positive outcome, that is how "luck" happens. If you don't play, you don't win.
is absolutely the truth ...
PW