{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Celebrity photographer Dave Hogan nearly pursued a career in pottery, before spending 40 years snapping the stars' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d72bd8eafeecae209972' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d72bd8eafeecae209972' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nCelebrity photographer Dave Hogan nearly pursued a career in pottery, before spending 40 years snapping the stars\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eCELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE HOGAN NEARLY PURSUED A CAREER IN POTTERY, BEFORE SPENDING 40 YEARS SNAPPING THE STARS              Dave Hogan has been photographing celebrities for over 40 years               The British photographer has...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE HOGAN NEARLY PURSUED A CAREER IN POTTERY, BEFORE SPENDING 40 YEARS SNAPPING THE STARS\u003cbr/\u003e              Dave Hogan has been photographing celebrities for over 40 years \u003cbr/\u003e              The British photographer has snapped the likes of Madonna, Prince, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and George Michael, to name but a few.\u003cbr/\u003e              He owes it all to an interested stranger, who pointed him in the right direction when he was a 16-year old job hunter in Wales.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I went to this apprenticeship to be a draftsman. I had no idea what it was, but I was sent along. This guy looked at me and he said, 'I'll give you the job, but it isn't really what you want is it?' I went, 'I'm 16, I don't know what I want.' And he said, 'Well, what do you like doing?' And it's a question no careers officer ever asked me at school. I said, 'Well I like doing art, I do pottery. I love photography.' And he said, 'Why don't you go to art school?'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The well-wisher even got him the chance to try for a place.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"He picked the phone up and he booked, he got me a place to go and show my portfolio of work. I took my scrapbook of drawings and I had the time of my life. I was at Shrewsbury College of Art which actually gave you the insight into other things that you hadn't learned in your O-level art lesson about life, too and taste of that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              However, Hogan's path to photography still wasn't simple, after a coin toss sent him down a different artistic avenue.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I did toss a coin of whether I going to be a potter or a photographer and it actually landed as a potter and for 25 years I came in a cold sweat every day thinking, 'I'm going to make coffee mugs for the rest of my life.' But I chose when I got there to Central School Art and Design and I'm the kid from Wales sort of thing, I got down there and I went, 'This isn't what I want to do,'\" he admits.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So I actually deferred my degree, traveled off round the world with a camera and then I came back with this thing and went, 'It's a lot easier to see the world with a camera than it is with a potter's wheel.' And that's how my career started.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Hogan can clearly recall his first celebrity photo shoot, with one Michael Caine.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Michael Caine, who I've actually, you know, recently photographed again. You don't go, 'Oh, you were my first person'. 40 years ago. I photographed Michael Caine outside Langan's Brasserie which is a restaurant down the road, down there and, you know, I just did some pictures of him quite recently and you just think, 'Wow! Still around' and so am I.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              But he struggles to pin down his most recent.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'd probably have to look at my phone,\" he admits, explaining that his busy schedule can be a bit of a blur.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"OK, so this weekend I'll be photographing Lady Gaga, I'm photographing Justin Timberlake in the month of February and then I've got... I mean it's it's like that, whoever's in town, I will photograph and as long as I get VIP access, meaning I don't do barriers, I don't stand - you know, we're on the red carpet. I may have five seconds with them but it's five worthwhile seconds.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Hogan currently has an exhibition entitled \"Hogie's Heroes,\" which celebrates his 40 years in the business, at The Trafalgar St. James. It runs to February 28.\u003cbr/\u003e              A number of the prints - signed by the celebrities photographed - will be auctioned off to raise money for three charities, the Teenage Cancer Trust, the Haven + London and Cancer Research U.K.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              London, 1 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Pan bar area of The Trafalgar St. James\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Pan of photos hanging on walls and windows\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Tilt up photo of Tina Turner and David Bowie (1985)\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Tilt up photo of Prince (1986), pan to photo of Amy Winehouse (2007)\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Close-up photo of Amy Winehouse (2007)\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Zoom in photo of Mick Jagger (1980)\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Hogan, photographer - on getting his first break:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Right place, right time, this is it, I would love to find that person. I actually went - my father was an engineer and in those days you became a, you do a five year apprenticeship day release in college. I went to this apprenticeship to be a draftsman. I had no idea what it was, but I was sent along. This guy looked at me and he said, 'I'll give you the job, but it isn't really what you want is it?' I went, 'I'm 16, I don't know what I want.' And he said, 'Well, what do you like doing?' And it's a question no careers officer ever asked me at school. I said, 'Well I like doing art, I do pottery. I love photography.' And he said, 'Why don't you go to art school?' And I'm sort of, you know, ding dong! So he - I didn't have a phone, my parents didn't have a phone at home and he picked the phone up and he booked, he got me a place to go and show my portfolio of work. I took my scrapbook of drawings and I had the time of my life. I was at Shrewsbury College of Art which actually gave you the insight into other things that you hadn't learned in your O-level art lesson about life, too and taste of that. And sadly, I did toss a coin of whether I going to be a potter or a photographer and it actually landed as a potter and for 25 years I came in a cold sweat every day thinking, 'I'm going to make coffee mugs for the rest of my life.' But I chose when I got there to Central School Art and Design and I'm the kid from Wales sort of thing, I got down there and I went, 'This isn't what I want to do.' But everyone would come and say, 'But you're in London - it's the city paved with gold' and I just went, 'I don't think I want to do it.' So I actually deferred my degree, traveled off round the world with a camera and then I came back with this thing and went, 'It's a lot easier to see the world with a camera than it is with a potter's wheel.' And that's how my career started.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Close-up photo of Bono and Bob Geldof (2004)\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Pull out photo of U2 concert (1985)\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Close-up pan of Michael Jackson photo (1990)\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Pull out of Michael Jackson photo (1990)\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Hogan, photographer - on the first celebrity he photographed:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"My first celebrity was Michael Caine. Michael Caine, who I've actually, you know, recently photographed again. You don't go, 'Oh, you were my first person'. 40 years ago. I photographed Michael Caine outside Langan's Brasserie which is a restaurant down the road, down there and, you know, I just did some pictures of him quite recently and you just think, 'Wow! Still around' and so am I.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Pull out photo of Robbie Williams concert (2005)\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Pull out of Take That photo (2017)\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Zoom in Madonna and Britney Spears kissing photo \u003cbr/\u003e              16. Wide of George Michael photo (2003)\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Wide of hallway with photos\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Medium of Simon Cowell photo (2016)\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Pull out photo of Kate Moss and Ronnie Wood (2001)\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Hogan, photographer - on the most recent celebrity he's photographed\u003cbr/\u003e              (Reporter: \"And who was the last person you photographed?\")\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Last week. I'd probably have to look at my phone. Sadly - not that I'm senile, but it's everybody, you know? OK, so this weekend I'll be photographing Lady Gaga, I'm photographing Justin Timberlake in the month of February and then I've got... I mean it's it's like that, whoever's in town, I will photograph and as long as I get VIP access, meaning I don't do barriers, I don't stand - you know, we're on the red carpet. I may have five seconds with them but it's five worthwhile seconds.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Tilt up photo of Oliver Reed (1985)\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Medium photo of Oliver Reed (1985)\u003cbr/\u003e              22. 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