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: [Brandon], a Flickr user

How did you get into photography?
As a kid, I always thought that being able to freeze time would have been the coolest thing ever. While playing around with my dad’s old Olympus digital camera, I figured out I could do just that. As a Sophomore in high school, I became attracted to the idea of using people as my subjects and being able to capture pure emotion. Finally, I decided to invest in a DSLR.

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Interview: .elsie*cake., a Flickr user

Let me know your background. Name, age, your native city etc. Are you a student? What do you study?
My name is Elsie. I am 26 and I live in Springfield, Missouri. I own Red Velvet Art and I work as an artist full time.

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Interview: Nature_lover, a Flickr user

Where do you find inspiration?

Nature…its the biggest source of my inspiration.Flowers & their beauty always left me in awe.Cool breeze swaying & whistling musical notes in your ears,birds chirping as if singing praise songs to Nature,ringing bells of flowing water. Aaahhh, how could anyone resist it all?

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Razrez interview

I glad to keep on the practice of Flickr users interviewing. Here is the interview with Razrez, a Japanese student.

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

My real name is Yasuko, the display name here on flickr is “razrez.” Took the name after my favourite film, “Clockwork Orange” By Stanley Kubrick. I’m from Japan, and have lived n spent most of my life here, except for a year in Western Australia and another one in NY. I’m 22 by the way.
Currently, I live in Tokyo, studying International Relations at university.

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Interview: Tanya Zommer

Guys, I took the interview with Tanya Zommer, the photographer of ‘Nerds party‘ shot!

- How did you get into photography?

This was a rough way indeed. My first degree is in insurance from the Financial Academy in Moscow. Somehow it turned in the end that I was totally frustrated with the insurance and my mind turned to arts. I got the arts studies in the Printing University in Moscow with book illustrating as a major. Photography was one of the optional courses that I took in order to develop my illustrating skills. But once started with the photography, I could not stop. Strange, but I got my first camera rather late. Many kids had point-and-shoot cameras in their childhood in eighties. I never had. My first camera was a simple film Nikon SLR presented to me by my mom in the year 2000. At the career start I was trying to shoot studio still-lives, same as Vadim Piskaryov, my professor from the Moscow Photo Academy whom I would like to express my sincerest gratitude. Later I found shooting people most interesting for me, so now I am concentrated at fashion and portraits.

- Are you a full time photographer?

Yes, I am a full time self-employed photographer based in Moscow, Russia. I shoot for a number of Russian editions of international magazines including Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Glamour, some magazines of Burda publishing house and local media including MENU Magazine, TREND Magazine, Sobaka Moscow, Bolshoi Gorod as well as some others. Read more »

Interview: Katherine Elizabeth

I’m glad to introduce the interview with Katherine Elizabeth, a young photographer I found at Flickr.

How did you get into photography?

-Photography had a really unexpected entrance into my life. My family moved from California to Texas my senior year of high school (two years ago), so I used to go outside and walk around in this farm behind our house. I was incredibly inspired by all the greenery and surroundings we didn’t have in California. One day my dad was digging out his old Canon AE-1 and asked if I wanted to use it. After my first roll of film, I was hooked.

- You are 19 but your photos look really impressive and professional, what is the secret?

-Well for me, it all starts with having a passion for what I do. You have to really want to learn, and be patient with the time it may take to get somewhere. Go out and be aggressive with it, and put all your effort into getting there.
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