WHO? My name is Mark Davidson and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I was born in Melbourne too but moved to a country town for school when I was 10. I spent my formative years in the country but don’t feel any connection to that place anymore.
Interviews
Interview with Txema Salvans
WHO? If the question “who” refers to who I am, I think I am a good friend, an acceptable partner, and not an entirely clumsy father. I drag myself through the world in astonishment, using an artifact called a camera that helps me navigate this curious and strange life, which, as Foster Wallace would say, is “supposedly fun but I’ll never do again.”
Interview with Emil Gataullin
WHO? I’m a photographer and artist living in Moscow, Russia. In 1999 I graduated from Surikov Moscow State Institute of Art, majoring in monumental painting. I used to do commercial interior wall paintings, sgraffito and mosaics for years and dedicated the remaining time to photography. Gradually, creating mosaics and murals became just a craft, a routine job for me, whereas photography appeared to be the matter of life.
Interview with Lorenzo Catena
WHO? I’m Lorenzo Catena from Rome, Italy. Initially trained as an architect, I discovered my passion for photography in 2016. I’ve always been passionate about cinema and have observed with interest the photography and sequences in the film industry. Photography became a way for me to merge my interest in architecture with a new, creative medium; it also helped me rediscover my own city and fuel my curiosity about ordinary life.
Interview with Elizabeth Bick
WHO? Obsessed gesture watcher, Texan, retired child ballet dancer (highlight of child dancing career was performing as a Mother Gigogne clown in The Nutcracker), very light sensitive, regularly contemplate if I should have been an architect, photography professor, kind-hearted/tough grader. I work on time-based projects, sometimes for over a decade.
Interview with Marcus Jokela
WHO? I am a retired photojournalist living in Helsinki. I worked for almost 40 years as a reporter, photo editor and photographer for the Helsinki newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
Interview with Danielle L. Goldstein
WHO? I am an NYC-based photographer with a focus on street photography, though I work on other types of projects as well. Throughout my journey as a history major in college, a law student and lawyer, and stay at home mom, I often dabbled in photography. But it wasn’t until I took an introduction to photography class at the International Center for Photography in NYC about 13 years ago that I became completely hooked. Photography became my passion, my way of expressing myself, and overall a very large part of who I am.
Interview with Suzan Pektaş
WHO? I am a photographer telling visual stories. Photography is a tool I use to explore space and persona, to look deeper at issues that concern me. Beyond photography, it’s actually more about how the whole process transforms me into another version of myself. It definitely makes me braver, more curious; leads me to find what is more different; makes me feel like I can do anything.
Interview with Neta Gov
WHO? My name is Neta Gov. I live in Tel Aviv, Israel. I have three children and I have traveled the world a lot.
Interview with Svilen Nachev
WHO? Born in 1979 in the small Bulgarian town Svishtov, located on Danube River. I’m married, with 3 children; we’ve got 6 cats, a hamster, a giant African land snail and many fish.