WHO? I am a native New Yorker and a street photographer. I will always be a New Yorker, born and raised in Greenwich Village and Soho where I still live. I’ll be a New Yorker even if New York sinks to the bottom of the ocean and leaves me stranded on an ice floe.
Interview with Mathias Wasik
WHO? My name is Mathias Wasik, but like many things in my life, this hasn’t always been the case. I was born as “Maciej” in socialist Poland but my parents changed my name after our family had escaped to West Germany in the mid-1980s. Decades later, in 2015, I moved to New York City with Emily, my Australian wife, and that’s – long story short – where my passion for street photography began.
Interview with Thomas Hackenberg
WHO? I was born in 1963, in the German city of Braunschweig. Some of you readers might be familiar with this city as the home of the once famous German camera brands of ROLLEI and VOIGTLÄNDER. I’m married, father to a daughter and a son, in the language business by profession and design, in street photography with my heart.
Melissa O’Shaughnessy on the Aperture Blog
Joel Meyerowitz‘s introduction to Melissa O’Shaughnessy‘s new book, Perfect Strangers, has been published on Aperture’s website. You can read the full essay here.
Interview with Nina Welch-Kling
WHO? My name is Nina Welch-Kling and I grew up in a small, quiet town in southern Germany where everyone knew each other—or at least it seemed that way to me at the time. As the daughter of a Holocaust surviving father and German mother, critically observing my immediate world was, and is, part of my DNA. I have lived in New York City since 1995, married, and have two now college-aged daughters.
Interview with Gloria Salgado Gispert
WHO? My name is Gloria and I am simply someone that loves to go out and take pictures in this world. Life is too short; this is something I learned at an early age when I lost my father after a long illness. This has influenced my way of seeing life. In photography, you materialize who you are. I just try to enjoy every minute.
Gus Powell on the Nearest Truth Podcast
Brad Feuerhelm interviews Gus Powell on the Nearest Truth podcast. Listen to the full interview here.
Matt Stuart on Leica Conversations
Matt Stuart is interviewed by Tom Smith on the Leica Conversations YouTube Channel. Watch the full interview here.
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Curated by Melissa O’Shaughnessy
Interview with Graeme Heckels
WHO? My name is Graeme Heckels, I’m a self-taught street photographer, originally from Newcastle in the UK, but thanks to some awe inspiring travel experiences in my early 20’s that fueled my curiosity to explore the world, an adventurous (perhaps nomadic!) spirit and realization that the grey UK winters weren’t for me, I was inspired to follow my dreams to migrate to Sydney where a lived for a number of years, before eventually settling Bangkok eight years ago.