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.
Interviews
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.
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.
Interview with Ranita Roy
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 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.