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 »

Photoshop retouching in action

Juha Arvid Helminen’s Shadow People

Finnish photographer Juha Arvid Helminen has created a black on black series that has me all aflutter. It’s the same mix of fear and attraction as the first time I read The Invisible Man or watched The Headless Horseman at the age of six. And a more recent instance–a shameful tickle in my pants upon discovering Pyramid Head in Silent Hill. Read more »

Dido Fontana

- I read on your website you was playing with cameras and sniffing acids in childhood. How your first images looked like?

Yeap! my first shot was made with old Rollei and Hasselblad. My father gave to me the last 2-3 shots of his rolls. Black and white of course. I think my first shoot was for my mother, then animals…dogs..sometings like this. Some blurry for sure, some out of focus…Damn! I havn’t the negative, lost…would be nice for me to see it right now. So cute.

- Who are you favorite photographers?

I love some artists, not all are photographers: directors, modern artists, contemporary artists…but Larry Clark and Juergen Teller are really honest with the camera, they have a terrific style.
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Interview: Edward Olive

- What was your first camera?

I do remember having a little Canon ixus aps advantix thing at some point in the 1990’s that I used to take a few holiday snaps that I generally never got developed and if I did I never looked at and stuck in a cupboard and have now lost I think moving countries several times. I then bought a secondhand reflex camera from a flea market in Paris in the late 1990’s and shot one roll of film without knowing how a reflex worked before putting the camera in a cupboard and again losing it.

The first time I really got a camera was in 2005 when I got a dreadful Canon 350d digireflexcam and the “free” lens it came with to shoot my own actor’s book rather than having to pay out fortunes each year for the usual rubbishy headshots. Soon after I broke it from over-use and bought a Canon 5d digital with 85mm L f1.2 to shoot portraits without having the background in focus, something that seemed amazing at the time.
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Interview: Ben Acree

I am currently in Ube, Japan, which is rural, industrial, and on the southern tip of the main island. I am headed back home to the United States in three weeks. I am not a professional photographer, but pinning it as a hobby seems somehow incorrect. Listening to records is certainly a hobby though.
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