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Interview with City Life photographer Olivier Jean Joseph Leroy

9 February 2016 0

How and when did you become interested in photography? Both my grand fathers were collecting family portraits carefuly in photobooks. I used to enjoy looking at those albums loaded with unknown dead people portraits mostly and it fascinated me. Probably…

Interview with Martin Ogolter

28 January 2016 0

Martin Ogolter was born in Austria. In 1990 he moved to New York, where he graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. In New York he worked as an Art Director in publishing and music for companies…

Interview with Fine Art photographer John Herdman

21 January 2016 0

– How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was younger we would go on family holidays to Scotland; I would take my parents camera and explore. I would take pictures of the sea, the hills and…

Interview with Street photographer Michele Rieri

10 January 2016 0

– How and when did you become interested in photography? I think I was 20 years old. I found an old Kodak camera at my grandma’s House, preserved between books and objects of the seventies. I asked permission to use…

Interview with Abstract Architecture photographer Steve Geer

2 January 2016 0

In early 2014 I began to photograph Chicago cityscapes reflected in various shiny surfaces. I thought of Lewis Carol’s famous children’s book “Alice through the Looking Glass,” and to get a little inspiration I decided to reread his wonderful text.…

Interview with Fine Art photographer Linus Bergman

21 December 2015 0

– How and when did you become interested in photography? I picked up my first camera in a darkroom class about 10 years ago, it was a surreal feeling to feel this handcraft, and go out in our little town…

Interview with Abstract photographer Taylor Jorjorian

14 December 2015 0

– How and when did you become interested in photography? The way in which I seriously took up photography was really odd. To this day it still baffles me as it happened in one instant. Born the son of a…

Interview with Documentary photographer Javier Sanchez-Monge Escardo

7 December 2015 0

1. How and when did you become interested in photography? It all came from my mother, she was a very good photographer herself and when I was a little kid I remember that one day she made me jump high…

Interview with Tintype photographer Christine Eadie

29 November 2015 0

1. How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was around 11 I pulled apart my mother’s Kodak instamatic to see how the shutter worked. I ended up breaking the camera in the process. A friend then…

Interview with Street photographer Keith Dannemiller

17 November 2015 0

Keith Dannemiller was born in Akron, Ohio on May 27, 1949, and educated there in Catholic elementary and high schools. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee with a B.A. in Organic Chemistry. In 1976, after four years in…

Interview with Outdoor Nude photographer Bogdan Gulyay

9 November 2015 0

Bogdan Gulyay (born 1980, Ukraine) work mostly in classic black and white silver gelatin technique. His latest series are a mixed media with black and white photos, manually painted with acrylic and oil paints. He also make multimedia slideshows from…

Interview with Documentary photographer Paulo Monteiro

28 October 2015 0

Paulo Monteiro was born in 1963, in São Miguel, Azores, where he currently live and work. He’s a self taught photographer. He has developed long term projects about various subjects, such as popular religiosity, profane festivities, architecture, landscape, Nature, or…

Interview with Portrait photographer Norma I. Quintana

17 October 2015 0

Norma I. Quintana (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1954) is an American photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary. She photographs with film, primarily in black and white using available light. Quintana has studied under Mary Ellen Mark,…

Interview with Nude/Portrait photographer Gregory Prescott

6 October 2015 0

How and when did you become interested in photography? I have always been interested in all forms of art and I use to draw and was interested in illustration but with the interest in fashion, I tried out photography and…

Interview with Fine Art photographer David Johndrow

29 September 2015 0

David Johndrow is a fine art photographer living in Austin, Texas. After studying photography the University of Texas, he began shooting commercial work as well as pursuing his more personal fine art photography. David’s continuing series, Terrestrials, combines his passion…

Interview with Nude photographer Igor Amelkovich

21 September 2015 0

How and when did you become interested in photography? As a child I dabbled a bit with a photo and I was close to it. After graduation and some construction of my life, I wanted to do something for self-realization…

Interview with Black and White photographer Ivan Pinkava

15 September 2015 0

Since graduating from the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Ivan Pinkava (b. 1961) has devoted himself to non-commercial photography. In this time, he has created his own distinctive visual language, which has…