Interview: Emese Benko

(www.emesebenko.com/)

Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background?

I was born and grew up in Timisoara, Romania and presently live in Vienna, Austria. After studying anthropology and psychology, I felt that I no longer want to explain the world but rather express it. Photography is my means for understanding people and relating to the world.It is also the only thing that can actually make me truly happy. My private life has always been such a mess, I have my father’s restlessness in my blood. Now, photography can channel this restlessness, it gives it a way to express itself. There is no other way I can live. (This is a declaration of love, I guess.) Read more »

Interview: Fabio Borquez

(fabioborquez.com)

What is your full name and where exactly do you live?

My name is Fabio Enrique Aurelio del sagrado corazon Borquez (shown in top photo), and I´m living in Neuss, an small village close to Düsseldorf.

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Interview: Fenia Labropoulou

(lafenia.com)

What is your full name and where exactly do you live?

I’m Fenia Labropoulou and I live in Greece, in a little town near the centre of Athens by the sea.

How would you describe your style?

I’m more fashion oriented with romantic elements. I avoid being hard and/or harsh, I love to be experimental and always try different things because I’m easily bored.

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Interview: Samuel Moulin

(www.samuel-moulin.fr)

Can you tell us more about your background?

I studied philosophy in Toulouse, France, because I am French. I am not a professional photographer, even though I happened to do commissionned works on a regular basis, and work for the paper press. I am working as a French teacher, and I also perform special photo classes for children in the town I live in. I teach the kids how to build pinhole cameras and process black and white film. Read more »

Interview: Anthony Chang

(CloudAgePhoto.com)

Can you tell us a little about yourself?

Well the name is Anthony Chang, I’m 21 right now and really I’d say I’m a photography enthusiast. I’ve been doing photography for a few years now but it wasn’t until 2-3 years ago did I start to take it more seriously. Since it was such an on and off thing for me I say that I don’t even have a years worth of real world experience when it comes to photography. For now its just a hobby of mine that I quite enjoy. Read more »

Interview: Karolis Milasevicius

(www.photoshoo.com/)
We’d like to know more about you. Can you tell us more about yourself?

I am Karolis, 23 years old photographer from Lithuania. Extreme sports got me into photography. I’ve been riding my bmx bike all day long and almost every day when I was young. On my freetime I used to watch bike magazines and movies. I have really enjoyed the photographs there- the composition, lighting, the exaggeration of the spot. So I decided to give photography a try. At first I was only shooting bmx, but Lithuania is a rainy country, and as I got so attached to my camera I had to start shooting something else- portrait photography was my choice. Of course, as many of us- I have tried landscape, still-life, concerts- but that wasn’t for me. So all in all- my passion for extreme sports got me a BA degree in photography and I am quite happy how it turned out. Read more »

Interview: Ioan Nicolae

(www.ioannicolae.ro)

First of all let me tell you that photography is my oldest hobby. Yes…a hobby, not a profession. Why only a hobby? Because I love my job and I don’t think of moving on to a new one and also, keeping it as hobby I can shoot what, when and where I want without having deadlines or having a boss that puts pressure on me… In other words I’m free to use my imagination and creativity in all my work.

Because I love the freedom, I am an active advocate of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) movement, Free Software Foundation (OSF) and particularly of the Linux operating system.

What is your full name and where exactly do you live? Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Engineer by profession, photographer as vocation, portraitist by passion, his artistic motto is “The eyes are the window of the soul” and so his works are a tribute to human beauty in all its forms. He had personal exhibitions in Romania and also participated in many international exhibitions. Read more »

Interview: Paul van Kan

(www.paulvankan.com)

We’d like to know more about you. Can you tell us more about yourself?

Born in France to a dutch gypsy mum who dragged us kids halfway around the globe, I was blessed to experience growing up in places such as South Africa and Australia. Such contrasting countries left me hungry to see the rest of the world, so I spent a good part of my youth doing just that. It wasn’t until I had a beautiful daughter, I thought I better stay put and, maybe…. get a proper job. So now I live and work in Sydney, Australia.

When did your love affair with photography begin?

While travelling I always had a film camera around, but I never thought there was even an industry to make money from such a hobby. The love affair was always there but it’s morphed into multi-faceted relationship now.

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Interview: Vaidas Bradauskas

Artist’s Bio (vaidasbradauskas.daportfolio.com/)

Close your eyes to the world that you see
And open wide to the one in your dreams
There’s nothing left that you wanna believe
Foreign eyes have been torn at the seams
You’d save yourself from a world without sin
You’re born again with a means to an end
Drawing lines in the palm of your hand
Your holding on to all that you’ve planned

Please tell us more about your background and what made you become an photographer? How did you start photography?

I am going to start my story with a boring cliche… I am from Lithuania, born 1987. From early childhood I was drawing. Nothing really special, all I knew that I like it. But in late years at school I abandoned this hobby. Don’t ask why, I just don’t. Lived in UK for some time. There I started to work with Photoshop. When got back to Lithuania I was looking for my self. One day while I was looking for a colleges or universities to start again my studies, I found  photography. Thought to my self: “I love to create, I like technology, I want to express my self through images and to show others how I see the world.” This is how it all started. Read more »

Interview: Fabrizio Tedde

 I’m fascinated from the dark side of life and all her shadows @FabrizioTedde (http://fabriziotedde.daportfolio.com/)

Let me know your background. Name, age, your  native city  etc. Are you a student? What do you  study?

My name is Fabrizio Tedde and I’m 39, I was born in a small  town in  the deep south of Sardinia and here I live and work like engineer in the industrial research sector. My passion for photography born when I’m very young but for some  different reasons I’ve started it seriously just two years ago.

How do you describe your photographic style?

Is not so easy for me to give a description of my style. I try to  explore  the different sides of human emotions with a  predilection for the dark and psychotic side. With the same kind of look I look at the nature. A recursive comment on my photos is “distressing” then… Read more »