For thirty years street photography has been an integral part of my lived experience in New York. What I love about street photography is that it is freewheeling and there are very few rules and regulations to making pictures.
Interviews
Interview with Karolina Trapp
WHO? I was born in 1976 in Poland, then lived in Australia for many years. It was on leaving Melbourne in 2015 that my interest in street was born by accidentally buying a local street photographer’s collection of images instead of the planned postcard-style souvenir book. By 2016, I was already settled in my new home of Seattle, USA, equipped with a small mirrorless camera, and ready to hit the streets!
Interview with Emre Cakmak
WHO? Hi! I am Emre Çakmak. I was born in İzmir,Turkey, 1996. When I was a child, I was trying to find myself in novels, playing football and walking around the city with my best friend; my late grandfather. My first photograph is a memento of those weekend walks. I was 7 years old, I took portraits of my mother and grandfather towards sea. I spent my childhood within this circle: books, football and my late grandfather.
Interview with Eric Kogan
WHO? Photography entered my life in my early teens. It all began with an internship at a photo-lab that spanned a summer’s length. I was just thirteen then, and though I didn’t fully comprehend what I was getting myself into, I felt motivated to experiment and see where the experience would take me. It was because everyone in my family made the most of their creativity that I was encouraged to explore my own.
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 Melissa Breyer
WHO? I am a misplaced California girl who came to New York City for college and never left. After getting my BFA in studio art, I realized I didn’t want to be a professional fine artist and so I redirected my dream of being a painter and became a writer. But I knew I wanted to continue making images, so I bought a camera and some how-to books – that was almost 25 years ago.
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 Dina Oganova
WHO? I’m a person who believes that we all have the same rights, no matter what our gender or identity is, what our skin color is, what our sexual preferences are, or our nationality. We are people, living on the same planet and we need to learn how to deal with this together without violating somebody’s rights.
Interview with Karen Zusman
WHO? My name is Karen Zusman, but I happily answer to KZ. I came to photography about 10 years ago when I was recording an audio story about a group of Burmese refugees who were being sold to human traffickers by Malaysian state officials. I was in the region as a Buddhist meditator and when I learned what was happening, I based myself in Kuala Lumpur in order to make this story.
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.