WHO? I am Annu Esko from Finland. When I was eight years old, I won some money from the lottery. With that money, my parents bought a camera for me. Since that moment a camera has been my friend. I did my career as a dentist but kept photography always with me as a beloved hobby. Now, as I’m already free from work I’ve decided to dedicate myself to photography.
Interviews
Interview with Chanda Hall
WHO? I am Chanda Hall, and I live in Montclair, New Jersey, just outside of New York City. Growing up in a family of artists and studying filmmaking in college, making things has always been a part of my life. After moving to Brooklyn and working in the film and television business, I decided to stay at home to raise my kids but found myself struggling to make any kind of art. Digital photography gave me an easy, quick, no-pressure way to do something creative every day. After years of photographing my kids, friends, performances, and school and community events, I gradually found myself sneaking photos of people on the street when I was out and about with my family.
Interview with Kirsty Greenland
wHO? I’m a teacher and photographer living in Perth, Australia. I am originally from Melbourne but have spent a lot of my life living in different places overseas – I think trying to understand the places I was living in was what prompted me to start exploring street photography.
Interview with Nibo Gutter
WHO? My name is Nibo Gutter. I’m 38, I was born in Frederikshavn but have lived in Byrum for all of my life. I dropped out of school to work with my father, who was a fisherman. I was destined to become a fisherman too, like all of our family, but with fishing business scaling up so much we left the business to my oldest brother. I became a plasterer.
Interview with Jesse Freeman
WHO? I’m Jesse Freeman. I am from the U.S. (Maryland), but have been living in Tokyo, Japan for a few decades now. It was here I got heavy into classic film and literature and so when my late friend Alani Cruz helped me get a Ricoh GR1s in 2010, I immediately begin to incorporate what I learned in the two mediums into the development of my photographic style.
Interview with Sean Lotman
WHO? I’m a visual author living in Kyoto, Japan. I was raised in Los Angeles absorbed with Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone, Technicolor movies, Marvel comics, Choose-Your-Own adventure books, screwball comedies, baseball, Hollywood theatrical productions, and pop music. Aspired to write novels and short fiction in my 20s and 30s. I have a longstanding love of literature and cinema. For many years I traveled widely. Nowadays, I’m a father. All of these tangents make me who I am and affects the sort of photographs I make.
Interview with Giedo van der Zwan
WHO? Hi, my name is Giedo van der Zwan. I was born in Amsterdam, I was raised in The Hague and I studied (business economics) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I have returned to The Hague where I live with my wife and three teenage children. Professionally I am a writer and a ‘creative consultant’ and I publish coffee table books.
Interview with Sam Ferris
WHO? Sam Ferris, b. 1985, living in Sydney, and originally from Melbourne. I work full time as a high school teacher and have a young family. You’d think that would be enough, but I still take photos every day. It’s a passion, an obsession, a sickness, a calling, I don’t know anymore.
Interview with Vladimir Yavorov
WHO? I’m Vladimir, from Bulgaria, living in the Netherlands. I got into photography about five years ago when I discovered street photography.
Interview with Spiros Loukopoulos
WHO? My name is Spiros Loukopoulos and I think of myself as a self taught – amateur photographer, born in Patras – Greece, the year 1985. I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark about 8 years ago. I have a degree as a Civil Engineer and I worked in that field for some years before I realize that it wasn’t for me. Now I’m working in the foods and drinks Industry, operating street food markets and often designing bars and cultural spaces.