We are delighted to announce that Meg Hewitt has joined UP. Her gritty, expressive photographs harken back to film noir and the ground-breaking Japanese photography magazine PROVOKE. Meg lives in Sydney, Australia and has undertaken long-term projects in Tokyo and New Orleans. Join us in giving Meg a warm welcome.
Interview with Ian Johnson
WHO? I am a color photographer based in NYC (for now). In my professional life I am a freelance video editor. Apart from photography I have a great interest in music (I am a conservatory-trained jazz musician), visual art and the cinema, the latter of which has played a great role in my understanding of still photography, both aesthetically and technically.
Interview with Damian Milczarek
WHO? I was born, and I still live in the city of Sochaczew near the capital of Poland. In Warsaw, where I work and photograph, I spend pretty much almost every moment of my life.
Julia Baier on the Leica Blog
Julia Baier‘s project “Blanket Over Berlin” is featured on the Leica Blog. Read the full interview with Julia here, and see the video about Julia and the project here.
Interview with Ed Peters
WHO? I’m a person who didn’t always want to be a photographer. Although I do have an early memory of being given a camera by my mother to photograph a school outing, I can’t really remember using a camera for anything else until I was almost thirty years old. At that time a friend showed me the work of some well known photographers, and also introduced me to camera fundamentals and the darkroom.
Interview with Valérie Six
WHO? I was born in the North of France but spent my teens in the Paris region and currently live in the Bordeaux surroundings.
Although our family tree shows an evident taste and aptitude for the arts across the generations, they were never encouraged or considered as a ‘real’ profession. Surprisingly, it was only recently that I learned that my great-grandfather, whose track we had lost, was both a talented photographer (transforming his pictures into paintings-like images) and the first flutist of the Paris Opera.
David Gibson on the Outerfocus Podcast
David Gibson interviewed by Ian Weldon on the Outerfocus Podcast. You can find the podcast here or on your favorite podcast app.
Interview with Dan Ziskie
WHO? I grew up in Detroit where I had an uncle who was a musician and who also ran a camera store. One day he gave me a Brownie camera which I still have, and he would come to our house and he and my father would film hours of family events, when small film cameras were becoming available to everyone. I suppose that was the first seed of my interest in photography.
Interview with Sachin Chauhan
WHO? I was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, in the year 1997. When I was just six months old my family moved to Gurgaon, Haryana, where I’ve been living since. It has only been about four years since I’ve been into photography. Coming from a lower middle class family, photography as a career was unthinkable, let alone purchasing a camera. I think that’s the reason I really understood the value of photography, and emotionally connected with it. I purchased my first camera when I was in the first year of college, studying journalism and mass communication, it was a point and shoot.
Shin Noguchi on Arctribe
Shin Noguchi’s project “The World the Children Made” featured on Arctribe. See the full article here.