Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Interview with Ewa Doroszenko


What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?
Many things, the everyday life, the nature…I’m always working on a few several projects at once, so when I have my camera I shoot accordingly to what I think would fit for each project.

Tell us about your experience as photographer. What did it give you?
Photography is a major part of my life. Photography gives me some kind of freedom. It helps me express myself artistically, and that’s a wonderful thing. Photography also helps me meet new people. Some of those people are online contacts, some are people that I’ve met in real life. Some of these are people interested in photography, some are models who have gone on to become friends.

How you found your first job as photographer/artist?
I really don't remember, it was many years ago…

Three adjectives to describe yourself.
Sensitive, creative, nostalgic.

A film, a book and a song
Film: Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
Book: Popular music from Vittula - Mikael Niemi
Song: Samson - Regina Spektor

Favorite web of photography
cargocollective.com
behance.net

What camera do you use? Dou you use one lens?
I use some different kind of cameras and different lenses.

Tell about exhibition if you‘ve had any.
My works has been presented on many exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic. For last few years I made many multidisciplinary art projects such as Tonopolis. But what brings me the greatest satisfaction is developing the very concept of a project and realizing the first stage of it. Completion and public exhibition of my works is not of great importance to me. At the moment of presenting them to the public I have already been working on the project for several years from its conception, so I have grown bored with it and my thoughts drifts away to new ideas.

Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
I accept orders via email. I try to keep my prints very limited, you can find the currently available ones here: www.ewa-doroszenko.com

What was your most big success?
This moment hasn't come yet ;)

Favourite photographer.
I really enjoy the work of Madame Peripetie, Akif Hakan, Elizaveta Porodina, Oleg Dou, Joel- Peter Witkin to name a few.

Describe some of your projects
The series False memories is a collection of photographs that talk about the human desire to be free and to search for magical elements in life. This is the story about dream-paradise, about the land of milk and honey. The photography series is an attempt to visualize one of the aspects of human memory - forgetfulness. The time and memory ceaselessly deform and transform pictures engraved in our minds, altering its form, structure and shape. With the passing time, the complete, clear and almost tangible picture recorded in our mind changes its structure blurs and gets distorted, finally to fall into oblivion. The photographs are a static illustration of the fascinating process of forgetting bygone events, occurring automatically in our minds. A vital aspect of the photographs is employing nature in the process of creation. The pictures were made using an original technique based on the randomness of the fire element. Treated with destructive flames, they became barely visible shadows of bygone events.

Your main concept.
I don't really have a main concept, but I focus on human, his identity, emotional states, and especially on his relationship with real or designed place. During the past years I have explored wide range of topics, such as visions of human future or mobile culture.

What is your occupation, job, interest besides photography.
I'm a professional trained artist. Apart from photography, I’m maintaining on many art levels such as installation, painting, drawing. Using that wide variety of art languages I wish to develop unique art forms, combining different features of each medium with strong attention to details and workshop as once.

Which advice would you give someone who wants to become a (professional) photographer?
Find the perfect moment, keep it in your camera.

Your plans.
I am finishing new series of paintings and preparing for the exhibitions coming up. In the near future I am going to concentrate on photography - my newest 'child' is called Futa Projekt and can be found at www.cargocollective.com/futaprojekt 








Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Interview with Antonio Tiso | Molo7 Photo Agency




What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?
For me photography is a way to discover the world. I look for the intimate truth of the things and I try to tell it with my camera.


Tell us about your experience as photographer what did it give you? 
I was born in 1975 in Verona. I graduated in Political Science at the University of Pavia and later studied photography at the Popular University of Rome. I have been working as photographer since 2007, collaborating with magazines, newspapers and companies. I usually work on long term projects. Since 2008 I am member of Storie di Mondi Possibili, an association of biographers based in Rome. In the 2010 I created a photo agency, Molo7, with the Italian photographer Ilenia Piccioni:


The name of the agency is inspired by both the physical structure and as a metaphor for a part of the human soul: the word Molo, Italian for Wharf, signifying a point of departure and arrival for voyages and explorations into open waters.


How you found, and what was your first job as photographer (payed project)?
My first payed project was commissioned by Enel Cuore Onlus. I reported the plight of the homeless in Rome and they used the photos for promoting a big no-profit project, A Heart at the Railway Station. How did I get this work? Really I I had called them a lot of times asking for an opportunity of collaboration. Finally I met the Staff Communication and they appreciated my professional approach and my way of photographing. Some months later they called me for offering me a collaboration.

Three adjectives to describe yourself
inquiring, steadfast, sensitive.


A filmWild Strawberries, a movie by Ingmar Bergman.

A bookJourney to the End of the Night, a book by Louis Ferdinand Cèline.

A song: Bobby Jean, by Bruce Springsteen.


Favorite web of photography:
I follow a lot of photography web sites. In this period I like very much two: http://lightbox.time.com/  and http://flakphoto.com/


What camera do you use? Do you use one lense? 
Actually I use Nikon D3S and, between the lenses, mostly Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8. They’re great for shooting photo stories.


Tell about an exhibition if you ‘ve had any. 
I’ve had many, but I’d like to speak about the Naked City Project, a collective investigation about the city of Rome, of which I am a member. NCP works like a social observatory experimenting a new information production model. The opening exhibition will be on the 21th May 2013 in Rome at the Cartiera Latina, Appia Antica:

http://vimeo.com/62420663


Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
All the people can contact me, writing here: info@molo7photoagency.com

Do you have commercial offers and projects? describe some.
I alternate the commercial works (food, interiors and backstage) with the editorial projects.

What was your most big success? 
Once I published on a local newspaper the photo story of an elderly Italian poet living without a lung in a car park. He had a big respiratory disease. The same day the story was published I was called by the spokesperson of a small Municipality at the periphery of Rome. They told me: “We just have read your article on the metro. We want to hepl the poest!”. After one month the Municipality gave a house to the man. It was great!! I went to meet him in the new house and he cooked or me a lot of pasta :) it was a very special moment.

Favourite photographer.
It’s impossible to quote only one. I could tell you a lot of photographers that I like so much! Someone who inspired me are: Robert Capa, Bresson, Kudelka, Salgado, Eugene Smith, Paolo Pellegrin, Zizola, Alex Majoli, Alex Webb and Luigi Ghirri.

Describe some of your projects.
My personal projects are a way to capture realities that otherwise wouldn't be told; to save from the passing of time something valuable. I mostly cover social and cultural stories. Here  some of my main projects are:

“The Judiciary Psychiatric Hospital of Aversa”, a photo project about the plight of the mentally ill offender living in the Judiciary Psychiatric Hospital of Italy:

“Postcards from Calabria”, a work about the places of the ‘Ndrangheta, the most dangerous Italian criminal organization:
“Once upon a time the Bel Paese”, a photo story about the plight of the most affected social groups by the Italian euro crisis:

“The ‘Withouts’ of Kuwait”, a photo story about the Kuwait’s stateless Bedoon people:

What is your occupation, job, interest besides photography.
Running, travelling, footbol, books, movies, food :) Beers with friends. And last but not least my family!


Which advice would you give someone who wants to become a professional photographer?
First try to understand if you want to cultivate photography a in a deep way. And then enjoy your work and work hard.

Your plans
My aim is to produce a body of work that reflects my deepest identity. And to travel a lot,  phisically and interiorly.




















Monday, April 15, 2013

Interview with photographer Maya Kapouski


About you:
My life is divided in two personalities. In one hand Lucía, the responsability part of me who is writing her PhD and is visual artist. On the other hand Maya, photographer and the experimenter part of me, always thinking about new projects, trips and crazy ideas.
I live and work in Galicia, in the northwest of Spain. A beautifull place that I love.
I have two dogs, Ceibe and Verde, and a turtle.

What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you? 
I'm in love with my day a day. I have the lucky of share my days with a lovely family, good friends and creative things in each part of my live.
Tell us about your experience as photographer what did it give you?
Photography gives me a way of life. Since I began to take pictures everything becomes to change. Nowadays is my job and the best way for me to share my personal universe.

How you found your first job as fashion photographer?
It success in a very natural way. I have been taking pictures some years ago for artist projects. At the end of my Fine Arts Degree I began studies in Fashion Design that I never finished. My colleges began to ask me if I can take the pictures of their projects and this was the way I made my first fashion shootings.

Three adjectives to describe yourself.
Pasionate, creative, lover

A film, a book and a song.
A film: Dirty dancing
A book: Asklepios by Miguel Espinosa
A song: El cordón de mi corpiño by Antoñita Moreno (It was the song that my grandma sang me when she looked after me)

Favorite web of photography
I follow about 20 photography websites and I don't know which one is my favorite. I love the photographers who appear in them!

What camera do you use? Dou you use one lense?
I use some different kind of cameras. My favorites are a Pentax Super ME, a Olympus XA and a Bronica. I have different lenses and I try to experiment and try all the cameras and complements as I can.

Tell about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.
I have made a lot of exibitions but the most part of them was not such as photographer, they was such as artist (sculpture, performance, installation, etc...) but since this year I have programmed some photography exhibitions to the future.

Do you sell prits? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
No, I don't sell prints nowadays. I have two different kinds of work, my personal work that I publish in my website and for exibitions and the “proffesional work” where I sell the shooting. So if someone wants a shooting or a collaboration they can send me an email to mayakapouski@gmail.com

What was your most big success?
The first time I fried an egg. I hate cooking and I'm afraid of boiling oil so it was a really big success.


Favourite photographer.
Ed Templeton, Juergen Teller, Olaf van Dod and my Dad.

Describe some of your projects
In my work I try to question the values of the adult world and rejects the obligation to leave the teen age and I explore the limits between art and life and the application of one to the other.
I work in some differents areas such as sculpture, photography, installation or design. I love every kind of work and I try to make it the best as I can, no matter in which process.

Your main concept.
Enjoy and be passionate in everything you do.

What is your occupation, job, interest besides photographyNowadays I have the good luck of being working in photography. I'm making my first steps in professional fashion photography, editorials and collaborations with brands and magazines. Also I'm begining to write my PhD in contemporary art and looking for new collaborations.


Which advice would you give someone who wants to become a (professional) fashion photographer?
Don't be afraid of being wrong. Make what you love and what you think is right. Hear your heart and let's risk, and be wrong again and again, this is the best way of open new ways and to innovate.

Your plans.



















Sunday, April 14, 2013

Interview with Fulvio Gá

About you

I'm Fulvio Gá  and as u can see from this photos I love shooting photos. I love planning photoshoots and searching ideas for projects and photos. I'm so inspired by other photos, nature, songs, books, colors, perfumes, memories, faces... but above all I'm inspired by THE DIFFERENT things. 

What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?

 I don't know very well, but i think as i said before, the things that attract me are more are the different things and the details. 

 Tell us about your experience as  photographer what did it give you?: I don't have a big experience in photography, but i think it gives me a lot now and it'll give me a lot in the future.

 Three adjectives to describe yourself. 
Insecure, curious, listener


  A film, a book and a song. 
  A film: Alice in wonderland - Tim Burton
  A book: Memoirs of a geisha - A. Golden
  A song: Blinding - Florence and the machine

    What camera do you use? Do you use one lense? 
Now I'm using a sony a230 and I 've got two lenses: 18 - 55mm and 50mm f 1.8

Tell about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.
I haven't had any exhibition yet. But I hope in the future I'll something like this.

Do you sell prits? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
I don't sell prints but I have an account on society6 where I put something like patterns and things like this, here is the link if you want take a look: http://society6.com/thewinterisnotover

What was your most big success?
 I think my first publication on a magazine 

Favourite photographer. 
 Absolutely Tim Walker

Describe some of your projects.
 well I've made so many project like: 365 days, 52 weeks. The last project I made is called: winter's tale and this photos are by this project. I thought to realize a long winter-like story and these are the results.

  Your main concept.
 I don't even think to a main concept but I could write a quote that describes exactly what i think: Earth without ART is just EH.

What is your occupation, job, interest besides photography.
 I'm studying foreign languages at school, so i'm a student!  ahah

Your plans.
I'm planning new photoshoots and projects to realize in the early summer after school's end. Stay tuned 
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