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INTERVIEWS
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Julie Higelin
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ANNE GIBSON
INTERVIEW WITH
BY DON SPRINGER
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So, what I took away from the ‘rule’ What purpose does
experience is to trust my gut. A dear friend photography serve for you?
once told me that only people who take
huge chances make great things. At first, it was just to make nice images.
Very quickly it became a way of speaking, a
But, they also risk failing catastrophically. way of meditating, a respite from my head
If I’m not prepared to fail catastrophically and finally, a social conduit.
then I will always make slavishly,
mediocre images. When I am shooting I completely lose
myself. That is bliss for me. Once I began to
That drives me to be fearless an essential feel that ‘lost’ feeling, that feeling of being
element my photography. ‘egoless’, just being an ‘observing being’ I
was hooked.
If we are speaking specifically
of photographers, which There is nothing quite like it for me to
are the ones of the past and ‘lose myself’ for those few hours when I
present do you admire? a shooting. I actually carry my camera
around with me in my purse. It is with me
Clearly, Vivian Maier 1st off. But then, I always like a prayer.
would have to say a few photogs I follow
on Flickr who are probably completely The moment I feel troubled or worried, it is
unknown. Some actually come from always there for me to take me away. I can’t
different fields. imagine walking out the door without my
camera ready to shoot.
I find, say, people who have always painted
and then turned to photography especially I am an introvert but when I have a
interesting because they think WAY camera planted in front of my face, I
outside the box. can be anywhere. All my selfconscious
awkwardness disappears. I can
Or, if they come from film or some other LITERALLY engage with anyone.
field, they seem to bring in a whole new
dimension. That really excites me. It is the “business card” that allows entry
anywhere, anytime to the world.
There is a painter from Paris,Alain Crocq,
whose work doesn’t limit itself to even What Genre’ of photography
*trying* to be perfect representations. are you most comfortable
working in?
He does crazy things with exposure and
post that, for me, blow it out of the water. I Well, “Street” but for a variety of reasons.
think, now that I’m asked, it is people who First off, I am poor. Once I have my little
are not limited strictly to photography that camera and my imagination, nothing else
I look at the most. is required.
They seem to be oblivious to the ‘rules’. Secondly, the “Street” literally, is my world.
They are the most influential to me. it is what I know, it is where I live, it is my
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‘comfort zone’. Thirdly, I am broke the rules that preceded It is all about discovery and if How is the light? What is it I look for people who interest How strong of a
impatient. I like to move about them so that appeals to me. I have a preconceived notion saying? What is being lit? What me or who are in interesting connection do you
and not spend time thinking too about what I am looking for, is hidden? situations.
have with your
much about anything technical. When you work, I’ll more than likely miss the
After that, I look for forms.. Once I see a scene, I imagine the subject matter and
are you working on *better* story unfolding before
In street, it is all about the me. shapes, elements that create a different angles it can be shot can you describe
different series or
moment. All I have to do is ‘find story. I use a fixed lens so I have from and move around until I that connection?
just finding photos
the story’ and then move on. Can you describe a grown accustomed to seeing the see a frame that pops.
that fit the way you world in the lens I have. I cannot separate my subject
few of your trigger
Perfection is not a requirement. feel at the moment? I also look for juxtaposition of matter from my inner world.
4th I love that there is so much mechanisms that That ‘frames’ my world. So I elements. Things that are out of
dispute about what constitutes Totally wing it. I can’t follow a make you want to look for framing. context especially when framed All my successful images are
‘proper’ street. script to save my life and don’t stop and shoot? from a particular vantage point. projections of something inside
want to. For me, street is about Sometimes, I realize I am too far me, though rarely literal.
I laugh because, so far as I ‘finding’ the story not conjuring Light. always light.. on away so I either run up to where But, first and foremost, it is how
can tell, what makes the great it up in advance and then going something.. that is what I look I need to be or I just have to let it is lit, what is obscured and That is the whole point for me.
masters truly great is that they out to prove a point. for first. that moment pass. what is revealed with light.
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What camera Are you self taught, you want to call it, I only
are you working educated or a little care about the subject I am
photographing. I move around
with currently? bit of both?
a lot and I don’t want to have to
Fujifilm X100t (Note: 6 months Self taught.. intentionally. I think about someone else.
after learning how to use my *killed* my creative writing
But I do love running into
Rebel, I *knew* want I wanted ability by going to University
other Streetogs and chatting
from a camera and the Rebel to study Philosophy (including
for a bit so long as we go our
fell short.. most specifically Aesthetics and Philosophy of
separate ways after a friendly
in lack of portability and Mind etc).
chat.
conspicuousness. It was just
too big.) Studying is great but you have
to know when enough school is Do you have a
How do you see the enough school. preference for images
relationship with your as an analog or as
But, Philosophy taught me how a digital state?
camera? Is it a friend, to think outside the box and do
tool or whatever? it in a disciplined way. I think it’s all great. I have no
preference . I would love to
Honestly, I sleep with it.. I have Once I learned the basic shoot with a Rolleiflex but I
4 cats who love to knock things mechanics of the camera, I wouldn’t want to be restricted
off of surfaces so my bed is wanted my photography to be to just that.
the safest place for it or in my as much ‘mine’ as possible.
purse. If the time comes when I feel
How do you feel about the need to get more gear and
But, seriously, my relationship
being photographed? I have a LOT more money to
with my camera is quite
spend on processing than I
literally the most important I hate it! have right now, that would be
relationship I have in my life.
where I would go just for the
However, I have had Street experience of it. But, I stick
I know that sounds weird Photogs try to take MY picture
because I have dear friends with what is within the realm
thinking I am an “interesting of possibility and that is fine.
I love a lot. But, I never visit local”.. but I usually spot them
them without bringing my before they can shoot and whip
camera. Where in the world
the camera up to my face and
shoot them shooting me. I’m
are you located?
They all know I am going to
very fast! Toronto, Canada
shoot them while I am there
because that is my way of
Do you like to work Where is your favorite
interacting with the world.
by yourself or to have place to work?
I have ‘tricked out’ my Fuji to someone with you?
make it so ergonomically slick Please explain why. Kensington Market. I have
that when I hold it, it feels like been in the neighbourhood
nothing more than a kid glove I work alone always. it is a for over 35yrs and that is the
on my hand. It has *become* solitary pursuit. When I get in best place to find just about
and extension of me. my ‘bubble’, ‘zone’ whatever anything that goes.
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Everyone is candid and it is that will bring in outside What i would like to improve
highly congested. It has a great influences. upon is my technical skill. I am
element of the chaotic which is still learning the things this
perfect. Getting stuck in the camera is capable of.
photographic image as a world
Very little is scripted there. The unto itself is death to the I haven’t, yet, found the
familiarity of it allows smaller, creative mind. boundaries. So, it is still
more discrete stories to emerge; exciting to me.
that is, once you get past all I need to mix it up. I also
the ‘billboard’ shots that every meditate that frees up my mind The other thing is the ever
tourist takes. as well. developing synergy between my
camera, my hand, arm and eye
However, I am going on my Do you exhibit your and my mind.
very first holiday ever to NYC work in any form?
for the Memorial Day Weekend. I would like that there be an
I have no plan but i am I post to Flickr, National unconscious flow of energy
wondering how different it will Geographic and 500px. that makes the thought and
really be to shoot outside my the image in the camera flow
‘hood. I haven’t done a print exhibition seamlessly from one into the
yet. Though I have been asked other.
When you’re feeling to. Whenever the subject is
broached to me I get anxious. I So, that requires simple,
somewhat slow or
just want to be shooting. manual skill and familiarity
lost, how do you find with my camera which is just
your way back to I’d like to hire someone ELSE more practice.
find inspiration to to do that instead. I’d really like
get working again? that to be someone else’s job.
I just suit up and get out to put How satisfied are you Can you describe
the ‘miles’ on. I work ‘through’ in your current state how you judge the
that. It’s the only way. in photography and success or failure
what would you like of your work?
If I sat around waiting to be
inspired I’d never get anywhere. to improve upon?
I am really crappy at that. It
I shoot whether i want to or not. fluxuates. Sometimes I take
Actually, I am thrilled with it.
Everyday is a new challenge. an image that *really* gets me
Eventually, that damn breaks
Sometimes I look back at some stoked and then I look at it 3
and the magic shines through.
of my images from last year and months later and I SEE that it is
But, this is what I call “doing
can’t believe I took the picture. not a great as I thought it was.
the leg work” it’s a critical part
of the process. The same happens in reverse. I
I *feel* like I am growing but
on the other hand, I feel like my really only trust the judgement
If I am stuck at home because
‘eye’ has always been there, I of those, very few, friends who
of the time of day, and i am
just didn’t know it. know me and even at that, if
looking to be inspired, I watch
they haven’t made a good case
a movie, read a book... anything
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I override it anyway. I don’t what it feels like to be invisible Doug, i am going to wait on
actually believe in “failure”. and not to have a voice. this one just because answering
these questions has been a
The closest I ever come to I shoot a lot of street kids. I psychic marathon and I am
failure is when I take a picture share the images with them. I exhausted and am not even sure
because I *think* someone else allow them to speak through my about how all this plays out.
will like it. When that happens lens.
it is SO obvious to me it makes So why don’t you let me know
me cringe. I give full copyrights to any how this works for you and I’ll
street kid who appears in an just sit and digest all I’ve been
I do it less than I used to. image. I allow them ownership thinking about.
of their image and of their
But I keep those images and the voice. For me, this is important Thanks for this opportunity
discomfort they cause me as a because they feel like people Don.
reminder to trust MY gut and view them as oddities without
not to drink the coolaid. culture, without values and
without self worth. FLICKR
How do you feel about
the current state They feel this objectification
of photography? often by other street
photographers. I know because
I think it is great! they tell me all the time how it
feels. It further pushes them to
The more the better. it has the margins.
become so egalitarian that
pretty much anything goes and When I shoot street kids, I tell
no one can really say squat them MY story and that I am
about it. not so unlike them. I survived
and they can too. In the mean
If someone, anyone, likes time, I give them selfdefined
it, even if it’s just the images of themselves that they
photographer him or herself, like and identify with. It’s not
it’s good. That appeals to me. It much but it means a lot to
takes the pretense out of it. them.
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Brendan Ó Sé
Interview with
By Don Springer
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If we are speaking
specifically of
photographers, which are
the ones of the past and
present do you admire?
As mentioned above, the one whose
work slows and quietens me is Trent
Parke. Moriyama, Sobol, Schles,
Winogrand, Leiter, are some of the
other photographers whose work I
enjoy.
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There is so much that gets I have some series on the go. can trigger something that is
my interest and sparks my One is the distances couples familiar to themselves, and
curiosity. create between each other and in turn, they can become
the idea that the gap will be more empathetic and
It could be trees, architecture, filled with love or loss. compassionate to those they
abstract, landscape, travel or encounter on the street, and
street. Another is the idea of also, very importantly, more
committing to the future as we compassionate and empathetic
The one I am most drawn to is carry whatever it is in our past to themselves as well.
street photography, but even that weighs us in the hope that
with that I tend to experiment the future will free us of it. Street photography can bring
with the creation of abstract people together and remind
street images. Then I have an abstract series of them that we are all share
people isolated in motion. common struggles and joys.
When you work,
are you working on How strong of a I believe I connect with each
different series or connection do you person I photograph. There is
have with your something which draws me to
just finding photos
them, but I am rarely aware of it
that fit the way you subject matter and
in those moments.
feel at the moment? can you describe
that connection? It can be later when reviewing
When I head out with my that something strikes me
cameras, I am not consciously A while back, I was asked by a and I may get to understand
intent on capturing certain street photographer friend of why I wanted to capture their
things. I prefer to be open to mine, Sheldon Serkin, to do a image.
what I encounter. little interview for his son who
was doing a school project on I rarely talk to those I shoot. I
As things appear, I am more street photography. may show them the photograph,
aware of how they might fit into but I do not have a desire to get
the projects I am working on He asked a similar question and to know them.
and may more actively pursue this is the answer I gave:
them. What are your
I feel that street photography
recurring themes?
Later, in the processing stage makes people more aware of
this becomes more pronounced. each other; more aware of the Isolation, loneliness, absence,
similarities we all share; be they hope, love, Forms, shapes, lines.
Can you describe a struggles or joys. Stories.
few of your trigger
Life is fast nowadays and
mechanisms that What is the distance
the sense of community and
make you want to neighbourliness can be lost. to your subject you
stop and shoot? are most comfortable
I would like to think that when with while working?
It can be someone with an people see a street photograph
interesting face, expression or of a moment isolated in time It really depends. Some shots
look that gets my attention. that conveys emotion, that it can be created at a distance
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while others are lost if you do not Have never really thought about
get in close. It can be location this. Is my camera a friend? My
dependent. iPhone is precious to me. I could
live without it, but my life would
On a subway train, you are close be dramatically different. As for
to people and don’t need to move other camera – instruments and
that much. On the street, you intermediaries.
move more. Shooting with either
the iPhone or the Fuji X100t Are you self taught,
means that very often to get the educated or a little
shot you need to be close. As
bit of both?
time moves on I am becoming
more comfortable with that. Selftaught.
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Another thing I try to do is to There is neither success nor frequent frustration I encounter,
look back at old work of mine failure in this, I believe. There is then it’s a success.
and try find a direction and not one photograph of mine that
motivation from that. I would not like to revisit and How do you feel about
endeavour to capture again. the current state
Sometimes it can work. Also,
of photography?
looking at the work of friends on It is all about learning and there
Flickr who continue to shoot is a is often much more to learn from There is some great work being
good way to get your photo mojo the shots that don’t work out done and more people enjoying
back in action. that those which initially may photography than ever before as
appear to do so. all aspects of photography are
Do you exhibit your more easily accessible today.
work in any form? Styles and interests evolve. What
That can only be good.
I may have been shooting before,
One photograph is on display may not be interesting to me
Is there a question
in 70 cities worldwide as part of now.
that you would like
The Apple World Gallery at the
moment. The same photograph The question does get me to answer that I
won the Mira Mobile Prize and is thinking, however. Obviously, haven’t asked?
in a gallery in Porto. one metric for this is the reaction
from contacts when I share on No
As I said, I post regularly to my Flickr.
Flickr accounts and my work is If you would like
organised into categories on my Work of mine that consistently is to make a closing
wellreceived can be perceived as
website. statement, we’d
success, but there are times that
images which I am really proud love to hear what
How satisfied are you
of might not be so wellreceived. you have to say.
in your current state
in photography and We all look for validation Just to say thanks for this
what would you like and acknowledgment. Few of opportunity to showcase my
to improve upon? us are Vivien Mayer. I enter work. It is an honour to feature
competitions; of course, I do. in a magazine like the Inspired
I am rarely satisfied. I want to And why? To see if my work is of Eye.
improve in all areas but if I could a standard.
improve in just one area, it is in
the mathematics and mechanics Winning or placing is another
FLICKR
of cameras. way to assess if what I am doing
is succeeding.
INSTAGRAM
I am mechanically minded and I
can find some camera mechanics However, ultimately, for me,
baffling. I would like to have the success can be measured in the
patience to learn more about enjoyment I derive from the
this. pursuit.
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INTERVIEW WITH
BY DON SPRINGER
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What inspired
you to become a
photographer?
First of all I must say: I am
an amuture photographer!! I
have old pictures of me and
my brother at age of 2 years
old. The pictures was taken
at a studio by a professional
photographer and I was always
thinking “I wish I could take
such pictures”.
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If we are speaking
specifically of
photographers, which
are the ones of the
past and present
do you admire?
As Street Photography is my
genre I really admire Erwin
Elliot for his humor and dogs.
What purpose
does photography
serve for you?
When I am going out for
shooting, I forget every thing,
its like a meditation, looking
for that special moment when
something funny, differnt,
touching catch my eye.
What Genre’ of
photography are you
most comfortable
working in?
As I mentioned before its Street
Photography.
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than taking pictures from How do you see the Good question. I know many
distance with tele lens, it’s make relationship with your photographers that do not like
you feel you are in the sense. being photographed. I like being
camera? Is it a friend,
photographed.
tool or whatever?
What is your favorite
Focal Length or Camera is a working tool. I have Do you like to work
Field of View? to master it and feel comfortable by yourself or to have
working with it. someone with you?
I have 1740 lens on my camera Please explain why.
for the last 5 years. Usually I use Are you self taught,
24mm. I have a very close friend, Gabi
educated or a little
BenAvraham, we meet a lot and
bit of both?
What camera are going out together for shooting.
you working with Definitely self taught.
We have many things in common
currently? like street photography, drinking
How do you feel about beer, and we enjoy working
Currently I use Canon 5D mark
being photographed? together.
II.
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INTERVIEW WITH
BY OLIVIER DUONG
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It’s been 2 years now that it of course on the field! If I wanted it. The thing is that
became my professional activity. remember well, the firsts books I what would be unpolite or
got were from Mickael Freeman unappropriate in our western
Would you mind and David Duchemin. culture can be absolutely fine in
sharing some of the different one.
Later I met and became friend
things you feel helped
with the travel photographer As Mitch told me once “Don’t
you along the way with Mitchell Kanaschkevich. From worry, do your work. In any
your photography, him I got the way of working on culture, any language, if you
(lessons, workshops, the field, and the final push to go really do bother someone, you’ll
books etc)....and also pro. quickly come to know about it.
some of the things that
I guess the main thing I had to Then just smile and say sorry”.
may have hindered understand is “Go and make It’s true, since he made me
you that you overcame your shot!” In the beginning, realize this, I have felt much
on this journey? I was so concerned about more confortable creating my
not bothering my subjects, images, for example by moving
I’ve learned photography in that many times I didn’t dare objects in someone’s house, and
books and on internet- and creating my image the way I so far no one never got pissed
Please tell us of producing something rather love for travel and my curiosity
something about than just travel as a tourist in towards different cultures that
holidays. got me into travel photography,
you, your life and
as well as the need to share my
interest etc. All this mixed up well and I experiences. I think its a natural
am now a full time nomad thing for many of us to get into
I am from France and in photographer, mainly focused photography when we start
my previous life, I was a on people. travelling a lot.
physiotherapist.
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If we are speaking
specifically of
photographers, which
are the ones of the
past and present
do you admire?
Spontaneously I’d say: Steve Mc
Curry, Ami Vitale, Pierrot Men,
Tim Allen...
What purpose
does photography
serve for you?
It’s a testimony and a way to
express myself, to tell about my
travels, what I discovered and the
poeple I have encountered. A good
image can replace a long speech!
What Genre’ of
photography are you
most comfortable
working in?
My work is predominantly
documentary with a focus on
lifestyles, ancient cultures and
traditions.
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much as I can to produce photo- There is also a light factor of What are your I like to be close to my subjects. When it’s possible I like to I’m thinking of buying a small
stories. course, I feel much more like recurring themes? Actually, shooting people shoot with my wide angle. mirrorless as a second camera-
shooting during the golden hours. from a distance makes me as I quite often shoot in dark
Can you describe a Countryside life and religious uncomfortable. I also quite often shoot from conditions.
few of your trigger If I see smoke coming out of a ceremonies/festivals. a lower position than my own
mechanisms that
traditional, I want to stop and If I feel I can’t be physically close height, even sometimes laying Are you self-taught,
check. I don’t follow a specific religion to my subjects to shoot, it means on the ground- I’m used to dirty educated or a little
make you want to myself but I find interesting I am not yet accepted by them. my clothes that way and make
stop and shoot? I guess as a woman it’s also a bit of both?
to see people being deep into It sometimes takes time to work people laugh at the same time.
good way to invite myself in their faith and celebrating it. on creating the contact and gain
Traditional looking people I am Self-thaugh.
someone’s house... “Oh, you’re the trust of the subjects before What camera are
definitely attract my eyes. cooking! What is the distance shooting, but I can feel free to you working with How do you feel about
Traditional clothes, ornaments, work only once this is done.
tatoos, anything that visually Can i see your kitchen and how to your subject you currently? being photographed?
gives a strong sens of belonging to you do?” That’s probably why are most comfortable
What is your favorite A canon 5Dmark3 and I feel I definitely prefer to hold the
a specific culture. I end up with a lot of photos of with while working?
Field of View? I couldn’t change yet -even if camera, but as I spend so much
women cooking!
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time photographying people, understand their culture. I think Where in the world Over there, I just don’t feel like I am following many Not so far...
I feel I can’t not play the game a good fixer definitely smoothes are you located? putting my camera back in its photographers and photography
when someone wants to shoot your way into making the bag. It’s the place where I feel pages on the social networks, so How satisfied are you
me! photographs you wish for. In the moment, I am in more than anywhere else that a when I see interesting images- in your current state
Colombia, I am working on good shot can be just around the which is quite often the case, it in photography and
Do you like to work Do you have a documenting the indigenous corner... makes me want to get back to my
what would you like
by yourself or to have preference for images tribes in the region of the Sierra camera!
Nevada. When you’re feeling to improve upon?
someone with you? as an analog or as
somewhat slow or Another way is sometimes to
Please explain why. a digital state? change my location/subject if I I am hardly self-satisfied in
Where is your favorite lost, how do you find general... Although I do realize
feel things are really not working
When I want to explore a In today’s world the images place to work? your way back to I’ve made some way in this field.
out where I am.
region or go to some villages, I are mostly available as a digital find inspiration to
always try to have a local fixer state, and it’s fine for me, but a I think Rajasthan in India is the In the last year I didn’t have
most photogenic place I’ve been get working again? Do you exhibit your
working with me. He helps me good quality large print probably much time to shoot personnal
to get where I want to go, to makes me spend more time on so far. work in any form? projects and improve.
One way is probably by seeing
communicate with people and the image. the work of others.
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If we are speaking What Genre’ of Normally I just shoot anything It could be the light or could can you describe photograph people, if that’s
specifically of photography are you that makes me feel something. be a shadow or could be an that connection? considered a theme.
actual scene that’s just starting
photographers, which most comfortable
Can you describe a to come together or it could be I don’t think I really have any What is the distance
are the ones of the working in?
few of your trigger the environment or an actual connection with my subject to your subject you
past and present moment. matters. I’m there then I’m
Editorial and photographing the mechanisms that are most comfortable
do you admire? gone.
street. make you want to So pretty much anything that with while working?
Magnum Photography. Steve stop and shoot? would make me feel something What are your
McCurry for getting me started, When you work, I would try to photograph. If
I really like to get up close where
are you working on I’m not really sure how to answer recurring themes? I even joked about it to my
but the whole Magnum as a unit. it doesn’t do that, I don’t even
that to me it’s always just about friends that I want to be able to
Diane Arbus, Deborah Tuberville, different series or bother bringing the camera up I try to photograph different
feeling. smell them.
Daido Moriyama, and Annie just finding photos to my eye. things that are in the street and
Leibovitz to name a few. that fit the way you catch life as it happens. I just I like to shoot with a 21mm and
There are things that catches
feel at the moment? How strong of a take what the streets gives me with that lens I really need to
my attention but when that
What purpose connection do you and that’s it. be close to my subjects which
happened that’s where I actually
does photography I never go out there with any would stop whatever I’m doing have with your allows me to fill the frame.
serve for you? place in mind. I always leave it up and try to photograph it. subject matter and I don’t really care much
to the day to see how I’m feeling. for themes really. I love to Of course every situation is
To escape the daily routine of life. different so there are times
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I’m a street and travel own camera to create a series of than shooting a few rolls of ilford leaves me rushing ahead with I was inspired by Top Gear to the daily grind, with the ability go
photographer from Ipswich, Daguerreotype portraits. delta and spending the day in the the excitement of my idea. do Vietnam on a bike. I’ve never anyway and stop anywhere.
Suffolk. I like to believe that darkroom printing. Photography is more of an instant rode a motorbike before so it
the world presents me with the These were shot travelling from medium, even with film. was a bit of a baptism of fire, The picture that particularly
moments I capture although it Hanoi down to Saigon on my I’ve done a lot of experiment especially getting used to the put forward that conception is
may also be down to luck. beloved bike ‘ChiChi’. darkroom work from printing Once the image is captured you gears on the busy Hanoi streets. the shot with ducks. The ducks
with spinach to building my can only change certain aspects are a visual metaphor for being
The magic of film inspired me I’m a street and travel own camera to create a series of like the tone and contrast but the The project really started when trapped in everyday life.
to become a photographer. My photographer from Ipswich, Daguerreotype portraits. main form of the image can’t be I was consumed by the beauty
first camera was a Pentax ME Suffolk. changed. It’s my moment in time of the whole experience, riding The bike cutting through the
and there’s nothing I love more I was lucky to grow up with art that can’t be recaptured. past craggy green islets in Halong ducks symbolises the escape
than shooting a few rolls of ilford I like to believe that the world and photography around the Bay, feeling at one with the to freedom. It has been by far
delta and spending the day in the presents me with the moments I house so I was exposed from an These were shot travelling from road, I knew I had to try and my most popular series and I
darkroom printing. capture although it may also be early age. I’ve always loved the Hanoi down to Saigon on my capture the whole experience in a think this is because it really is
down to luck. idea of creating things, original beloved bike ‘ChiChi’. photographic series, which would something you can wanderlust
I’ve done a lot of experiment things. be truly difficult. over.
darkroom work from printing The magic of film inspired me It was a journey of downs and lots
with spinach to building my to become a photographer. My I’ve practised various mediums of ups and something I’ll always I think the series is about It’s something that has enough
first camera was a Pentax ME of Art at school but I find remember. freedom mostly. Being away from danger to get your heart pumping
and there’s nothing I love more my lack of patience always but accessible enough for almost
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How do you feel about the morning and walk around speed/aperture combo and i
being photographed? looking for interesting things. can focus or moments rather
They know me and respect this. than technical aspects. B&W
Although i don’t mind too I can’t stand getting stuck in a films give me full spectrum, no
much, i can’t say i really like hotel room. clipping.
it. Photoshootings annoy me a
little. In the street i don’t mind Do you have a When using my digital cameras
though. Doing the same to preference for images it’s not that easy. Digital is great
others, i can’t really complain… for studio work where careful
as an analog or as a
lighting is required, or when you
digital state? have time to properly expose.
Do you like to work
by yourself or to have I shoot film for technical reasons I also love the way film deals
someone with you? only. Nothing nostalgic or with transitions and contrasts.
Please explain why. trendy. It’s smooth, natural and delicate.
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Where is your favorite When you’re feeling This is perhaps the most How satisfied are you Using digital i don’t shoot much WEBSITE
place to work? somewhat slow or exciting moment. Very diferent in your current state more. Having too many choices
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lost, how do you find in photography and
I love cities. So far my favorite feelings but for me that’s where
your way back to find the thrill is. what would you like to Any anecdotes you can
place has been Tokyo.
inspiration to get improve upon? share?
The energy there is working again? Do you exhibit your
phenomenal. Japanese people I can’t say i am satisfied with
work in any form? my work. There are exceptions,
I am really not good at
are very creative and have I usually don’t force myself. remembering that kind of
this conciousness of doing When i return from a Having recently decided to but i am in fact almost always things…
something in the best possible photographic trip, i can’t touch show my work, i am still disapointed with myself and
way. a camera anymore. gathering contacts. my images… I still feel the next Any closing comments?
image will be the good one.
They are totally dedicated to This usually lasts for a week or I meet with people, talk, and try I will be in Miami and NYC
their craft. I feel very close to two. During that time i process to understand the way things I tend to be very picky at in September, really looking
them in that sense. They do my films and work on them on work. I am right now working selecting my keepers. On a 36 forward to it !
care. my computer. on a book project with some frame roll, i choose 3, 4 photos
publishers. maximum. I have stopped
working on average images.
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of the congregation, and whole of the Twentieth Century, The historic synagogue building
frequently the rabbi suggested was disappearing and being had since collapsed and is
other opportunities I should replaced by gentrification. now a vacant lot. But other
pursue for the project. buildings were still there, some
So I wanted to grab what I renovated. Rabbi Spiegel’s
At the time I had no idea where thought would be the last family still lived in the area,
I was going with the whole gasp of a dying community. so, after a twenty-year hiatus, I
thing, but I had a feeling in my These photos are part of that picked up the project.
gut that it was important for me collection.
to pursue the work. This is a small sample of some
More recently, I was of the original and later work.
As I photographed merchants encouraged by my photography
and residents of the area I instructor, Mario Cabrera, to I
realized that the character return to the neighborhood to WEBSITE
of the neighborhood was see what had happened, and I
changing and the immigrant was surprised to see that while
nature of the Lower East Side, gentrification was progressing
especially Jewish, which had nicely, there remained a kernel
been dominant for almost the of the old community.
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Please tell us I came to live in Italy . I am around me . With photography the things you feel should at least attend a basic past and present
something about you, separated and I live with my I found a way to freeze these helped you along technical course and then let go do you admire?
beautiful baby girl , which is moments. on instinct .
your life and interest the way with your
thick my muse. It might seem obvious,
etc. Put as much detail What age are you and photography, (lessons, All this at the same time careful but I like all the masters of
as you like and then we I love nature and everything at what age did you workshops, books observation of the photographic photography . HCB , Erwitt
will start the questions. that is not contaminated by the
start your journey etc)....and also some world and the study of the great , Cindy Sherman , Sebastião
stupidity of man. of the things that may photographers. Salgado , Annie Leibovitz , are
My name is Arleta Zawadzka as a photographer?
have hindered you the ones I prefer.
, but in my little world as a What inspired If we are speaking
photographer I am known as
I’m 40 and I started seriously that you overcame
you to become a five years ago. specifically of What purpose
Kicia Randagia . I was born in on this journey?
photographer? photographers, which does photography
Poland , the country that I love
deeply. But “ all roads lead to
Would you mind I think anyone who wants to are the ones of the serve for you?
I always liked to watch the faces
Rome “ and about 15 years ago sharing some of become a photographer , it
and attitudes of the people
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What Genre’ of
photography are you most
comfortable working in?
In this moment I work on portraits of
children.
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I source quality cameras and other photographic
equipment from Japan to customers around the
world. Having built strong connections in the camera
industry over the past seven years as a buyer and
broker in Tokyo I am able to quickly and expertly
meet the needs of each customer on an individual
basis. No matter what it is you are looking for, Japan
has it, and I can find it.
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What Genre' of
photography are you most
comfortable working in?
Of course it's street photography.
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How satisfied are you I think it’s difficult situation. We seem to be a barrier but your
in your current state can spread a work for the world photos speak loud and clear. It’s
easily using some SNS. All over an honor to have you here my
in photography and
the world at same time. friend.)
what would you like
to improve upon? I think photo life is getting If you would like to make a
shorten year after year. But I closing statement, we’d love to
I have no choice but to believe believe a wonderful work to be hear what you have to say.
and continue oneself. always noticed by someone.
I’d like to keep believing oneself
Can you describe how Is there a question and sending new Tokyo for the
you judge the success or that you would like world through my eyes. Thank
failure of your work? you.
to answer that I
I’ll follow my nose.
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the current state of able to speak with you more.
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Q theresagroth
Stopping Traffic – Yonge Street and Queen
Street, Toronto, Ontario,
http://theresagroth.tumblr.com
https://500px.com/TheresaGroth
QQ Giuseppe Milo
Praga district, Warsaw, Poland
RR Kevin Demers
Dog Day Afternoon. Walking past this
house one afternoon, I saw this dog
just completely flopped out on the step,
dead to the world. I thought to myself,
yup that looks like a great idea. So
returned home and proceeded to flop
on the couch. Thanks pooch!!
R Giuseppe Milo
The couple
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R Noel Lopez
Any bartender can be a friend and a keeper of
secrets.
Q Gordo
Dreaming of Venice…..
QQ Stefan Neagu
Arachne
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Q VF
talking to some customer
QQ Jeremy McCarthy
A visitor leaving the Tate Modern in
London as the sun setted.
RR Richard Bresden
death calls, but we keep running
R Miguel Tejada-Flores
Lucy, my mother in law, is in the last stages
of a long illness. Some days and moments are
difficult; others have a quite sense of focus and
reflection. This was taken in such a moment; we
were sitting, talking, and there was something
about her face, and her look.
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RR Rafael Ianos
Paris, France. Rafael Ianos
http://www.rafaelianos.ro/black-white-gallery#3
R Rafael Ianos
Street reflection. Rafael Ianos
Q Spero Ginis
‘not convinced’ One of my favourites!
R Subro Sengupta
“Skater Boys”
I saw this girl and we made eye contact This photo was shot in front of
when she saw I was going to take a President’s Palace, New Delhi
picture, I then discreetly motioned with (India). It was early in the
my hand for her to come closer to the morning and I spotted a group of
guy preaching ‘fire and brimstone’ BS. kids practising skating. I mainly
I just wanted to get a contrast between focussed on the white line pointing
the two. She added the fingers/tongue straight, positioned my camera,
thing – which made the picture that took a few shots of the kid in front
much better. (Thanks you, Punk Rock and then he moved to the left and
Girl) I got this shot.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/
subrosengupta/
Thank you.
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RR Roland Co
I saw the shot…and i quickly took it.
R Roland Co
When everything falls into the right
place and you only have split seconds to
react…
Q gretchen krueger
old biker,new mexico
QQ Marc-Andre Robert
Kid watching a non functional Mercedez
in Cameroon
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artamarc/
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RR Gastón Etchegoyen
sleeping beauty
R Joannis
Momentum 2015,,in my Backyard! The
Title ofe the Pic: Stromrider. Greets
Joannis
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Speedy
QQ David Gleave
Bass player in dressing room,
Manchester 2014.
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Q Marc-Andre Robert
With detailed images from the four
corners of the earth, I try to show the
human condition in all its wonder. My
approach to imagery ensures a very
visual experience, most notable in my
black & white work. I prefer to invest in
marginal areas, meet the landless, the
homeless...telling stories with images.
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artamarc/
QQ Marc-Andre Robert
Kid watching a non functional Mercedez
in Cameroon, https //www.flickr.com/
photos/artamarc/
Q Marc-andre Robert
A dog in the middle of the jungle in Africa
R Kimberley Britt
A gent in a fedora will always catch my eye.
In this case he happened to be in an old
train station that has just recently reopened
as a transit hub ….the setting, his gaze, and
the simple window light, I think, adds to the
timeless quality.
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RR Jim Matthews
Spotted in Paignton Devon while
looking at the sign on the machine.
R tgoarant
loss of inoocence – Thibaut Goarant.
Taken at the Yokohama Museum of
Art
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Q GRANT CAMPBELL
Taken outside a city cafe and caught
the eye of the man inside.
QQ jbarab
Waiting for a falafel, winter in NYC
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https://flic.kr/p/iX58Wx
R GRANT CAMPBELL
Waited across the road at an
underpass while the woman with her
walking aid went past , luckily at the
same moment a cyclist came into view
and I took this frame.
Q Jochem Schmidt
A shot from the back of a shot from
the back of a models back.
QQ marcwick
I liked the different pattern sof the
ground in combination with the light
and shadows
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Q marcwick
Seen near the Taj Mahal, India
QQ Fiverdog
What prompted me to take this
photo was the woman’s polka
dot outfit and her jewellery.
It was a quick grab shot and I
hadn’t even noticed the little
boy blowing bubbles so was
pleasantly surprised on viewing
the image later in Lightroom.
I really love his expression –
he wants his mum to look but
she’s too engrossed on her
‘phone. Sue Berry
R Fiverdog
So often in a big city we are rushing from
one place to another and never take time
to view our surroundings. This man sitting
in the shade watching the pigeon seemed
to be an oasis of calm amidst the hustle
and bustle.
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RR Never Edit
The Godfather Himself
R Ron Dennis
A Lonely Walk
Q Bjoeki
while an impressive organ sample
this man took his sleep
QQ Brett Franklin
Both photographs taken in 1996
in New York, shot on Kodak
transparency film, I’ve scanned
them and converted too black and
white in Lightroom, I still enjoy
shooting film as well as digital,
there is a different feel too analogue
photography.
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Q Brett Franklin
Taken on Kodak transparency 1996
New York, converted into black and
white via lightroom
QQ Jordi
138 l 137, Kobe Japan. Fuji Acros
ei320.
RR Jordi
Past watching, Yokohama Japan. Tri-x
(ei1600).
R amberdenzphotodotcom
My husband and I spent 3 days at an
elephant preservation camp where
these images were created. All images
taken with Fuji XE2 + 55-200.
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RRR david
breakfast
RR Crystal Calton
I took this photo while walking through
Venice, Italy. The alley was so small and
cramped I found myself looking up to just
get a glimpse of the sky.
R Sandra Dalton
Fence in cemetery.
QQ david
Allo?
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