valerian: Obrist: This leads to my next question- about your archives. You are extraordinarily...

valerian:

Obrist: This leads to my next question- about your archives. You are extraordinarily prolific. I have no idea how many pictures you have taken, it could be ten thousand, or a hundred thousand, or a million?  Are you cataloguing them? Do you order them by date or by topic? You work covers all kinds of genres…

Araki: I haven’t been very organized. I have assistants working on it. Reflecting my belief that photographs are taken by the type of camera used- Leica, Pentax, or Lomo, the type I’ve started using recently.

Obrist: By the type of camera? I love that! How many types of cameras do you use?

Araki: More than ten. When I have a photo shoot with a charming model, I use five or six cameras at the same time. Big, small, they are all different in character. I like the ones with a good clicking noise.

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Source: In Conversation With Araki, Hans Ulrich Obrist, July 31, 2001.