In todays lecture we watched a documentary about Bill Cunningham, a renowned street style photographer from New York. Doing what he loves is very nearly all he does, except to sleep and eat.
In the documentary Bill celebrates his 80th birthday. Every day he still pedals around Manhattan on his bicycle, taking photographs of what people are wearing. He has been famous for many years for doing this, and has been featured in places such as Women's Wear Daily, Vogue, and Details magazine. He doesn't know who half the celebrities are and doesn't care. He's genuinely fascinated by what people wear, not by haute couture, but by what makes people feel good about themselves.
Bill lives a very simple life. His apartment was so filled with file cabinets of his decades of negatives that there was literally nothing else there but a mattress on top of some files. No kitchen and s bathroom down the hall. He doesn't consume any free food or drink at the high profile parties he gets invited to, he treats them as if they were work. Bill is always dressed in one of the cheap blue smocks he finds in Paris - the ones garbage men wear, because they have lots of pockets for his film.
I personally found this film very inspirational as this is a man who has invented a career for himself and is extremely happy and humble in what he does. Is that not what everyone wants to achieve in the end?
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