Interviews

Interview with Michael Nguyen

Interview with Michael Nguyen

Michael Nguyen has been living in Munich since 2007 and has dedicated himself entirely to art again since 2018. He is an artist, not a photographer but more a photographic poet or something he himself could not define. He moves away from the mainstream, at the same time blurs genres. Most of the time, he focuses on small, ordinary things…
Interview with Christian Zieg

Interview with Christian Zieg

– How and when did you get interested in photography? My interest started by the love for nature. I wanted to conserve my impressions and since I never considered painting to be something I was capable of, I started to get to know my fathers camera. This happened in the late nineties. – Is there any artist/photographer who inspired your…
Interview with Kaushik Dolui

Interview with Kaushik Dolui

How and when did you become interested in photography? In my childhood days, I did the drawing and painting, later in my mid-twenties I developed an interest in photography .I joined in a short course in photography at that time. Later I participated in different photographic salons under FIAP and PSA patronages and won many awards/acceptances over the time and…
Interview with Tatiana Kurnosova

Interview with Tatiana Kurnosova

Tatiana Kurnosova is a fashion photographer, stylist and blogger with almost 10 years working experience in fashion industry. Tatiana’s career has begun since her first trip to Milan. Since then she has never stopped going forward and growing as an artist. Multiple awards – winner, published photographer and author of “All you need to know about model test shoots. The…
Interview with Ricardo Canales

Interview with Ricardo Canales

Ricardo Canales is a professional psychologist and self-taught photographer. He was born in Chuquicamata, Chile in January 1973. He grew up in a middle class family, whose father worked in the mining world and at the same time was interested in music, literature and photography; these were perhaps the first influences that Ricardo had on art. However, it wasn’t until…
Steve Geer: Skyscraper Magic

Steve Geer: Skyscraper Magic

I live in Chicago, a city known for its skyscrapers. Of the forty tallest buildings in the city, half have been constructed since the year 2000. These impressive twenty-first century structures have mirror-like skins of glass. Those of us that have played with two or more mirrors know that certain arrangements can produce an optical illusion. The same is true…
Interview with Daniel Castonguay

Interview with Daniel Castonguay

How and when did you become interested in photography? In 1979, as a member of a youth association, I had to choose an activity for the upcoming session. Naturally interested in science and experimentation, photography seemed a very fascinating activity since I could have access to a dark room and improve my knowledge in that particular field, I then discovered…
Interview with Anna Lazareva

Interview with Anna Lazareva

Anna Lazareva is an artist working in Fine Art and Fashion photography. Her projects are focused on finding new innovative style both shooting and post processing. Aside from her photography she is a creator of photo magazine Fotoslovo. She lives and works between Moscow and Paris. – How and when did you become interested in photography? I would say that…
Interview with Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno

Interview with Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno

Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno was born in Rome in 1967, lives and works in Krakow. He earned a liberal arts degree at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he later lectured on literary theory for several years. Pilichowski–Ragno studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow. For 20 years he has been working as a photographer and an active member…
Interview with photographer Nicholas Brewer

Interview with photographer Nicholas Brewer

Nicholas is a photographer and educator based in London. Starting his career in the analogue age working as an assistant to many established photographers, he progressed to making work for editorial clients and record companies. After completing his MA at Falmouth College of Art, Nicholas started teaching. With a full-time teaching role Nicholas concentrates his photographic practice on areas that…
Interview with photographer Gregory Kramer

Interview with photographer Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer is a photographer based in New York City. He published his first book DRAGS in 2017. DRAGS documents NYC drag king and queen scene in classic black and white photographs. His follow-up project DOWNTOWN is a self published project documenting New York City’s downtown scene. Gregory draws his inspiration from the the people that make up New York…
Interview with photographer John R. Pepper

Interview with photographer John R. Pepper

John Randolph Pepper (1958), is an American/Italian photographer. He was born and raised in Rome; lives in Palermo and works worldwide. Pepper started his career in Black & White analogical photography with an apprenticeship to Ugo Mulas at 14. He published his first photograph at 15 and had his first show at 17. He studied History of Art at Princeton…
Interview with photographer Troy Colby

Interview with photographer Troy Colby

Troy Colby was born in rural Kansas in 1975 and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas. His work and research explores the delicate balance of family, fatherhood and the outcome of the family photo album. Motivated by intellectual and psychological inquiry of these intimate topics, Troy photographs his own family as a means of understanding the emotional qualities that come along…
Interview with photographer William Mark Sommer

Interview with photographer William Mark Sommer

William Mark Sommer (b. 1990) is a film photographer from Sacramento, California. Traveling the many back roads through the Western United States for 10 years has let him explore the idea of American Dream. His travels brought him a closer understanding this nostalgic idea of America by seeing history in person and understanding its progressive nature in forgetting the past.…
Interview with photographer Gary Beeber

Interview with photographer Gary Beeber

Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and “Personalities” (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work…
Interview with photographer Genesis Cabrera

Interview with photographer Genesis Cabrera

Genesis Cabrera is an Artist – Photographer born in Venezuela and living in New York City. Her work emphasizes her passion for portrait and fashion where through portraits she reflects personality, moods, natural and raw imagery. Genesis deconstructs her own images adding different elements to create multiple artworks collages and to show different perspectives of the same person. Her inspirations…
Interview with photographer Leon W Syfrit

Interview with photographer Leon W Syfrit

How and when did you become interested in photography? I discovered photography, in the summer of 2008, while I was an art student at the Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington, DE. I was actually studying painting, but I was curious about photography. When an introductory photography course was offered at school, I couldn’t resist. The moment I…
Interview with Landscape photographer Martin Henson

Interview with Landscape photographer Martin Henson

My name is Martin Henson, was born in 1952 in West Yorkshire. I now live in a place called Otley a small market town in Wharfedale also in West Yorkshire. The Start My first camera was bought for me when I was 12 years old and was a Kodak 120 roll film, which I still have, it was a baker…
Interview with photographer Michael Chaiken

Interview with photographer Michael Chaiken

– How and when did you become interested in photography? Photography wasn’t supposed to be my thing. My younger brother was the photographer. He took some high school classes. He had his own darkroom to develop film and make prints. And he was given a scholarship to attend art school and perfect his photography. Along the way, however, he fell…
Interview with photographer Florin Firimita

Interview with photographer Florin Firimita

– How and when did you become interested in photography? My father allowed me to use one of his cameras when I was three years old. By the time I was six I was helping him develop film and print photographs in his improvised lab in one of our bathrooms in Bucharest. He took pictures of our family first, but…