MEG HEWITT: When and why did you take up photography?
JULIA CODDINGTON: I’ve always photographed. I’ve always been creative and interested in art and music, but growing up on a farming property in NSW I had little access to the arts until I headed off to boarding school in Sydney when I was 12. As a kid I had a Kodak instamatic and Polaroid camera and took lots of photos of family and friends. As a young traveller I took travel photos and as a mum of three kids I was the one behind the camera. I have boxes and boxes of photos of the kids. It was largely about collecting memories.
Interviews
Interview with Albin Brassart
WHO? My name is Albin Brassart, I am 46 years old and I live in Paris, but not for much longer. The mountains, the Alps, and another life is calling me, my wife and my two daughters. I discovered photography because my father was a still life photographer. I spent a lot of time in his studio, but never learned anything until he gave me his Nikkormat and a 35mm lens—which was gathering dust—for my 16th birthday. From then on, I started buying all kinds of cameras, completely possessed and obsessed with photography.
Interview with M. Aviña
WHO? I am a frustrated creative from a family of creative people. Based on my observation I have to say there is a creative drive that may be genetic.
Interview with Sonia Madrigal
WHO? My name is Sonia Madrigal, a woman originally from Nezahualcóyotl, a city located on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City. My family came from different parts of the country to live in this city that was in development in the 1960s. Except for one year, I have spent my whole life in Neza.
Interview with Andrés Ríos Fierro
WHO? My name is Andrés Ríos Fierro. I am from Bogotá, Colombia. In 2017, I was working as a bike messenger in New York. My natural reaction to the city was to start taking photos of the things that caught my eye.
Interview with Igor Baranchuk
WHO? My name is Igor Baranchuk. I was born and raised in Moscow. For quite a long time I was engaged in drawing and painting, but the quality of my work did not satisfy me. I was very clear about my level and was very constrained. At some point, I came across a catalog of one Leningrad photographer and his works interested me greatly.
Interview with Bas Losekoot
who? Bas Losekoot (1979) born and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I am a photographer concerned with small socio-cultural issues in big cities around the world.
Interview with Linda Maclean
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 Paula Navarro
WHO? My name is Paula, I was born in Santiago de Chile on January 31, 1981. I am the proud daughter of a single mother, and I have never known my father. I was lucky to be raised by a wonderful mother who taught me important values. It is in her honor that I go by her last name, Paula Navarro, when on paper my full name is Paula Lizama Navarro.
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.