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.
Interviews
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.
Interview with Niek de Greef
WHO? I’ve been taking pictures since my uncle gave me a Praktica TL 1000 (still have it) somewhere early in the 1980s to photograph the bands we went to see while he was recording the shows for our bootleg cassette collection. I took not very good pictures but he was a great artist and turned the images into awesome expressionist paintings.
Interview with Kyle Souder
WHO? My name is Kyle Souder. I live in Portland, Oregon where the majority of my photographic endeavors take place.