BA: How’s your day going? BB: Pretty good. Pretty intense couple of weeks at work, but also preparing a small exhibition. But also interesting and fun. And the UP thing was definitely the cherry on top. Nice to have you onboard. What’s the exhibition? I have been shooting in my old hometown, where I lived […]
Interview with Chris Nesseth
WHO? Hi, my name is Chris Nesseth, I am a photographer from Portland, Oregon. I love walking for hours around town or spending days at an event searching for strange and colorful moments in ordinary settings. I’m addicted to flash and taking things out of context.
Interview with Christopher James Trotchie
WHO? My name is Christopher James Trotchie, I was born in Casper Wyoming and I am an Enrolled Tribe member at Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. I photograph people, places, and anything really. Nothing is off-limits. If it’s happening in the public domain, it’s fair game.
Interview with Michael Raines
WHO? Hello, I’m Michael Raines, a photographer recently relocated to Portland, Oregon from Los Angeles. My photos often focus on candid moments out in the world, and domestic life, in and out of my house, elevating the ordinary day-to-day humdrum aspects of living with vivid-color, surrealism, humor and playfulness.
Interview with Vee Morgana
WHO? My name is Vee Morgana. I was born in Poland, escaped to Spain with mum at the age of ten, and after a couple of years emigrated to Sydney, where I’ve lived ever since. Whilst in Spain I was a week away from emigrating to the US, but Australia became an unexpected option, and the decision was made to go there instead. This alternate reality plays on my mind constantly. I’ve always been a very independent person, preferring my own company to that of others. Acerbic, with a short-to-medium fuse and a moody temperament, fiercely loyal, very critical, cynical, but ironically, the life of the party. I’ve never been in a fight, but I reckon I’d really go to town for the right reason.
Julia Baier in Conversation with Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews: Where did you grow up?
Julia Baier: I grew up in the south of Germany, in Bavaria in a small town, Passau, next to three rivers.
Blake Andrews: How did you first get interested in photography?
Julia Baier: My interest in photography first started when it was clear that I would leave the town to go study elsewhere. So it was the classical aspect of photography to archive and to hold on things to keep it better in memory. I went to buy my first camera, a Minolta X300. And I also did my first internship in a small photo shop in Passau — this was the best I could do. The person working in the photo lab introduced me to b/w photography, so I fell completely in love with darkroom work.
Jack Simpson in Conversation with Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews: Where are you from and how did you first get into photography?
Jack Simpson: Well I was born in Michigan and grew up in North Carolina. I moved out to San Francisco in 2010 and have been in the San Francisco Bay area ever since. When I first moved to San Francisco all I could afford was a studio apartment in the notorious Tenderloin district. I began documenting the things I would see in my neighborhood and on my way to work with an iPhone 3 or whatever was available, an old Nikon…Fights, crime scenes, crazy characters— you name it, the place was begging to be photographed.
Melissa O’Shaughnessy in Conversation with Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews: Where are you from?
Melissa O’Shaughnessy: I grew up in Minneapolis, but have been living in the New York City area since 1991.
Blake Andrews: Can you trace your interest in photography back to your roots?
Melissa O’Shaughnessy:
I really came to photography quite late—when my children were in high school. But my father was an avid amateur photographer so there may be a genetic influence.
Alison McCauley in Conversation with Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews: Can you tell me a bit about your journey? Where are you from? What were your early artistic influences?
Alison McCauley: I was born in the UK to British parents but spent my life moving from country to country. My dad was a hydroelectric engineer. My earliest influences were painters: Rothko, Basquiat, Miro, Tàpies, among others. Then as I got into photography, it was Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank to start with, probably because they were the first I came across. I do still love RF’s work just as much though.