WHO? My name is Linda Maclean and I live in Sydney, Australia with my family. After school I studied Fine Arts in a very casual kind of way, majoring in painting and photography, and spent the years after finishing doing a lot of wandering and not much art.
Interview with Greta Rizzi
WHO? My name is Greta Rizzi, I’m 36 years old and at the moment I live in Italy near Venice, but soon I’m moving to America, to reach my boyfriend who lives there. I graduated in law and economy for bank and financial markets, but recently I have discovered my real passion: photography.
Interview with Irina Sokolova
WHO? My name is Irina Sokolova, I live in Saint Petersburg , Russia. I am a graduate philologist, travel manager and photographer. I started shooting pictures ten years ago with my son’s Nikon, and I became an absolutely addicted image maker very soon. There was not a serious photography institution in St Petersburg at that time, so I devoted myself to self education in art and visual practice.
Inverview with José Alvarenga
WHO? My name is José Tostes de Alvarenga, signed José Alvarenga. I was born in a middle size town, 200 km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As a child, I was drawn to photography by my father who possessed a camera and loved to take pictures of the family in different places of the city.
Interview with Fidalgo Pedrosa
WHO? I was born in Lisbon and started photographing at the age of 20. My passion for photography was due to the amazement I felt when I recognized the ability that the photographs had to tell stories, facts or present beauty in such a reduced space and within 4 edges.
Interview with Mena Sambiasi
WHO? I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1979. During my childhood and teenage years I spent many hours in front of the TV watching movies and TV shows. I went to a technical high school and studied advertising and ironically the only subject I ever avoided was photography.
Interview with Dako Huang
WHO? I am a person with few words. I was born and raised in Taiwan, in my twenties, I used to be a fashion editor for many years, therefore the visual aesthetics is always important to me. Living abroad as an expat for more than twenty years in four countries, I have turned my passion into photography, my innate aesthetic appreciation of visual and creativity helps to shape my vision of photography, I currently live in Los Angeles.
Interview with Alicia Haber
WHO? My name is Alicia Haber, I was born and live in Montevideo, Uruguay. As a Contemporary Art Historian and Curator of Contemporary Art (not photography), I have traveled, studied, taught, presented papers and given conferences in Uruguay and abroad, mainly in Western Europe and the United States. I lived abroad while studying sponsored by international research grants.
Interview with Stefano Mirabella
WHO? My name is Stefano Mirabella, born 1973 in Rome, the city where I still live and photograph. For many years, I worked in the television sector for a few satellite thematic channels. But always, photography has been my greatest passion, since the day of my first communion when my uncle gave me a Yashica mf2 that I still keep with great care. In photography, I was trained in the best schools in Rome and then I followed a very personal journey, to the continuous discovery of authors and genres, I studied a lot and started to collect numerous photographic books.
Interview with Vasco Trancoso
WHO? Born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1944. During my childhood I was influenced by the pictures of the great painters reproduced in an illustrated encyclopaedia. The fascination was instant and perhaps my first step towards constructing an aesthetic culture. Later, in the early years of high school, the art teacher encouraged us to organize exhibitions with paintings cut from calendars or magazines. These ‘exhibitions’ by great artists on different types of paintings was a second important step in the evolution of my “eye”. It was the beginning of the “road to seeing.”