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Argentina based photographer, Mariana Pacho Lopez
Current city: Buenos Aires
Camera you currently use: Contax t3
Camera film: Nikon fm10, Contax t3
What inspires you to photograph? The magic of the moment
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I like to experience the magic that is present in the moment, looking for the nature of the acts …making a transfer from analog to digital constantly from the film to digital, as a way to intrude on the galaxy of the internet.
Brazilian photographer and cofounder of Suppaduppa, Denis Fujito
Current city: São Paulo, Brazil
Camera you currently use: For years I’ve been using a Minolta 303si, but lately some point and shoot form Nikon and Pentax.
Camera film: I use any film, but any Kodak Colorplus has been my preferred lately, easier to find down here.
What inspires you to photograph? I think the strangeness and the beauty of my daily life. There is always a camera in my backpack so whenever I feel strange, funny or in awe with something or someone I try to shoot and keep that feeling through my photos. Also I have sight problems and sometimes I try to show my point of view on things, the confusion, the blur. I don’t know. There isn’t much thought when I shoot my camera, the will comes or doesn’t. It’s hard to explain.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I am brazilian, son of a Japanese father and my mother is brazilian, but with Japanese parents. I work with web analytics, but keep my mind at peace and away from the numbers creating content for Suppaduppa, a site that I co-founded with three great friends, and watching sports on TV. In the photograph field, I am part of Companhia Rapadura, a collective of photographers that got together to keep the flame of analogue photography alive outside the online world through zines, expos and other projects.
Photographer and student Gabriella Scali
Current city: Montréal, Canada
Camera you currently use: An old Canon At-1 and Canon EOS T1i
Camera film: Fujifilm and expired Kodak Gold
What inspires you to photograph? Seeing artworks of other artists. When I’m inspired it is because I love a part of a certain image or painting and I want to recreate this part, by mixing it with an other part of work made by a completely different artist, in my own way. So what inspires me is not something precise but rather an admiration for all the artists that there is out there. I find it beautiful that we can all be connected by art.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I grew up in an average town not so far from Montréal with a father who has always pushed me and helped me to be creative and a mother who gave me her love and passion for music. Now I’m living in Montréal and will attend my second year of Major in Photography in Concordia University this September.
Barcelona based photographer Lita Bosch
Camera you currently use: Yashica T4 & Olympus MjuII for everyday and Revueflex 1000s for the days off.
Camera film: Wish I could use old kodak reversal stock.
What inspires you to photograph?The will of remembrance. I capture all those instants/feelings that I want to remember somehow in the future.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I am a 25 year old short sighted girl currently obsessed with portrait photography.
New York based photographer and artist Ian Jovanovich
Current city: New York mostly, but I also spend a lot of time in the DC area as well as in Richmond, VA.
Camera you currently use: I almost always shoot with a Mamiya 7II. But if not, I am using a 5DmkII or 5DmkIII.
Camera film: Definitely Portra.
What inspires you to photograph? The passing of time, and having proof of something, but I guess that is pretty universal to everyone. The concept of home as it applies to me, and how I don’t know where I would consider my home. Color is also very important to me, as well as form. Friendship, and the people in my life in general also inspire me.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I am originally from Northern Virginia, about fifteen minutes outside of Washington DC. I have since moved to New York. I am pursuing my BFA in photography and will be going into my third year of college at the School of Visual Arts this coming fall. I have always had an interest in art, but I did not seriously start pursuing photography until my second year in high school. I am still trying to develop my style and figure out where I fit in the photography/art world and where I would like to go with my photography.
Photographer and stage manager Michal Brezinsky
Current city: Wrocław, Poland
Camera you currently use: Olympus xa, Olympus xa2, Canon Prima Super 120, Canon Prima Tele, Sony Video Cam, and some more.
Preferred camera film: Olympus xa
What inspires you to photograph? Mostly everyday life, I am doing this because I don’t want to forget feelings, emotions, moments, places etc. I treat photography as a visual diary.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: My name is Michal Brezinsky, I was born in Karpacz, Poland which is a small village in the moutains. Currently I am living in Wrocław, Poland. I am an environment specialist graduate, currently working as a stage manager in small polish tv show.
the above poem “Then” is taken from Anatol’s book “Anachronism”
Poet and artist Anatol Knotek
Current city: I live in Vienna, the capital of Austria.
Preferred medium: Language is definitely my preferred medium. It’s most fascinating for me, when words are not just written on paper, or digits on the screen, when words move or suggest movement, when letters get performative and other media is interweaved, when they need space and a viewer (with a certain point of view) and the meaning changes, just because of the presentation, the material or the surrounding space… I like to combine the »advantages« of poetry/literature and fine art.
What inspires you to create? Words, language and shallow phrases, the experimental poets of the fifties and sixties and conceptual artists.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I am Anatol Knotek (born 1977 in Vienna) an Austrian artist. Visual and concrete poetry, installation and conceptual art are in the center of my artistic work, which has been exhibited internationally. My concrete and visual poems have been published in journals, chapbooks, schoolbooks and anthologies. I am a member of the “Austrian Art Association”
Some information about where to purchase “Anachronism”
Briefly about my »anachronism« book project: usually a book is just a copy - but not this one. Every poem is individually written with my typewriter, so each single page is unique. out of about 50 poems I chose 16 for each book, therefore also the contents varies and is never the same. There are a lot of advantages when making a book by hand: You can tear, cut and scratch the pages, paste something with glue or use the typewriter to make holes…You can purchase it only directly from me, or you can use a paypal option on my tumblr blog.
London based photographer and artist Sasa Stucin
Camera you currently use: Yashica and Ricoh
Camera film: Kodak (cheap, out-of-date ones)
What inspires you to photograph? I use it as a tool to document my work, my lovers and my cakes. To archive seaside for the rainy days in London, palm trees and horizons. To reconstruct drunk nights and to remember how amazing my life is.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: London based visual artist finishing master degree at the Royal College of Art. Recently I turned focus to fictions of Amazing future, new surface strategies and desert while eating oysters and making cakes.
Photographer and free spirit Netra Nei
Current city: Seattle
Camera you currently use: Mamiya 645 AF Olympus XA
Camera film: Portra 400 120mm Kodak Gold 35mm
What inspires you to photograph? Mundane elements which exist harmoniously within their man-made environment yet rebelliously reveal themselves as individual; they often resonate with simplicity and honesty, can elicit feelings, evoke memories, assert a quality of beauty and even touch a humorous chord.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest to hippie parents who instilled in me a love of travel and nature through camping, hiking, and road trips—including Seattle to New York in a Volkswagen bug. I’ve studied design, both fashion and graphic, and this background along with memories, feelings and intuition influence my direction in photography. I currently live in Seattle and freelance as a graphic designer.
Photographer and future Anthropologist Chloe Monson
Current city: Salt Lake City, Utah
Camera you currently use: I go back and forth a lot, but I just got a Pentax ZX-5 that I am learning to use.
Camera film: I’m in love with the Kodak Portra, but usually I just stick to what is the cheapest.
What inspires you to photograph: Mostly, I am just inspired to keep memories of all the things I do. All of my pictures are very personal, and I can look back and see that my life really is lovely.
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I’m a nineteen year old photographer from Salt Lake City. I like to spend most of my time in the sun, with my boyfriend, and travelling. I am currently planning on majoring in anthropology.
Photographer and student Margaret Durow
Current city: Madison, WI
Camera you currently use: Canon t3, Canon ae1
Camera film: Whatever is cheapest
What inspires you to photograph? Life, feelings, light, connections, memory, communication
Tell us about yourself: I grew up in rural Wisconsin. Currently studying biological conservation and environmental studies at university of wisconsin-madison. Working in a paleoecology research lab.
Photographer and explorer Azarah Eells shares her thoughts with Voight Kampff
Current city: Wichita, Kansas
Camera you currently use: My current favorites are my Canon 7D, Pentax K1000, and Polaroid Cool Cam
Camera film: I love experimenting with all different brands, especially expired film, 1600 and 800 speed films
What inspires you to photograph? So many things. Youth, fashion, human beings, light, emotion, memories, music and dreams. I have an obsession with abandoned places. I’m interested in capturing moments that are gone so quickly. I want to remember every beautiful thing I see.
Words with Cornwall based artist and surfer Laurie McCall
What inspires you to create art? The things I see around me, images in non-fiction books, magazines, photos, other artist’s work, people. All of these contribute toward ideas. I love how limitless art can be, the possibilities are endless and that keeps me motivated to make my next piece. I never really know what’s coming next. I also get a real feeling of satisfaction when I finish a piece, so it can get quite addictive!
Preferred medium: I work predominantly in collage but often like to mix things up by adding paint and other artists materials. Most of the paper and imagery I use in my collages come from regular trips to car boot sales where there is always an abundance of old books, magazines and other treasures on offer.
Tell us about yourself: I studied graphic design at university and I feel that this training has had a strong influence on the work I produce. I work as a freelance Graphic Designer and practice art in my spare time, although I would love for things to be the other way around! I live on a little farm near a small seaside town in the southwest of England and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I have been a keen surfer since I was whippersnapper so the beach is also a big influence and part of my life.
