T H E Y O U T H ONE A Photographic Magazine | Issue 1 | Spring 2012
DEAR READERS, I am constructing this photographic magazine in an attempt to promote teenage photography, as well as the individuals who have served as my strongest inspirations throughout the past few years. These are the photographers that have guided me with their extraordinary work. I want to show people the unknown talent that exists in each of these artists. As I have witnessed their evolving photographic styles, it has led me to the decision to honor their talented minds through this magazine.
Sincerely, Brinkley Capriola Editor Cover Photo by Nicholas Wilson
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Kelsey Curtis Joe Curtin Rebecca Stone Nicholas Wilson Elijah Majeski Natalie Kucken Chrissie White Zoe Harris
kelsey curtis 18 Years Old Portland, Oregon
1) How would you describe your photographic style? I’ve always had a hard time with this one. I feel like my pictures best represent the ways I view life. I’m a very visual person who tries to capture the essence of a moment. I try to re-create the exact mood or feeling in any given event or expression through a photograph. Most of my photos have an element of something nostalgic or dreamy to them, whether that is represented through light or subject matter I don’t always try and make things seem realistic. I try to capture life in the dreamiest way possible, because that is honestly how I view it. My sense of imagination is also portrayed in my work. I absolutely love to photograph people. I want my photos to be alluring at first glance. I feel like I’ve done my job when someone is fascinated by how the picture was taken. There is an element of mystery to my work sometimes making the image less obvious, but more intriguing. 2) What usually inspires your work? I am inspired by just about everything around me. Sometimes I get inspiration from memories, dreams, emotions, or just by observing my surroundings. I’m online looking through tumblr, flickr , and magazines at a variety of photos just about everyday. Overall, I’d say people inspire me most. 3) What is an ideal photograph to you? Well it would be outside, taken with film, during the golden hour, of people. They could be friends or lovers. It would capture one of those rare, intimate, and candid moments in life that have always been exceptionally beautiful to me. 4) What are your plans with photography for after high school? I am going to college to hopefully to major in photography, depending on where I end up. I plan on one day working in advertising; hopefully shooting editorials or campaigns, or work like that. I’m sure I’ll end up photographing weddings as well. Regardless, I know I will continue to take photos for the rest of my life.
J O E CURTIN
17 Years Old Los Angeles, California
1) When did you become so interested in photography? I began taking photos seriously in the summer of 2009, and I instantly became dedicated when I started my 365 project that summer. Taking photos every day really pushed me. 2) How would you describe your photographic style? I basically just take my camera everywhere and capture the fun I have with my friends. I wish I did more planned shoots but I like my youthful style for the most part. 3) Who are your strongest inspirations? I love the photos of Maggie Lochtenberg, Jocelyn Catterson, Elliot Fairhurst, Blaise Chatelain, Anna Hollow, and Ana Cabaleiro. They all capture life so well and I enjoy keeping up with their updates on Flickr. 4) Do you have any plans involving photography in the future? Yes! I’m hoping to double major in Film/Cinema and Photography in college. I’m only a junior in high school so I don’t really have a solid idea of what I want to do in terms of a career, but as long as I’m happy, having fun, and constantly creating, I’m sure I’ll do well later in life. 5) How would you describe an ideal picture? I’d have to say the most ideal photograph would be taken in Iceland on a ridge during the northern lights. I can’t decide if I’d rather have one person or several people sitting on the ridge watching the lights, but if I could get a picture of anything similar to that my life would be complete.
REBECCA STONE
18 Years Old Sonoma, California
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photographer’s work. I enjoy looking at photographs daily, and try to do so for at least one hour Rogers, Allison Scarpulla, and Davis Ayer , because they stick to a defined style, all the while, aking it unique to their interests. I also love looking at the work of the Free People photographers, nal. This is something that I am trying to find in myself as a photographer. Looking at the work of t to photographic techniques, such as: lighting, background, depth of field, facial composition, body t work, I can both raise ideas, as well as formulate an individualized interpretation of it.
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our plans for photography after high school?
in at which form of photography I am likely to pursue. I have ideas about studying archaeology, and raphing travel and artifacts. Because it is my dream to see the intricacies of the world, I am inclined while traveling regardless of what job I have. Any opportunity I have to take portraits I will use. I y style within the next two years so that I will know which job to pursue, whether it relates to pho-
Nicholas Wilson
17 Years Old Portland, Oregon
1) When did you first become so intrigued with photography? I have always been a super creative person. I love to draw, make things, play dress up, but had never really had a sole outlet for my creativity. When I was in 8th grade I got my first camera for a trip I was going on and there my bond with photography began. It started with taking photos of myself and my cats, to dressing my friends up as models to all of the work I do today. 2) How would you characterize your photographic style? I guess I really know what I like when it comes to aesthetics, so everything I take a photo of is something special I see or a magical moment in time. If I had to characterize it I’d say.. Clean, warm, expressive and dreamy. 3) Who are your strongest inspirations, and why? My first instinct is to say Tim Walker, he has been one of my favorites for quite some time and I really am influenced by a lot of his ideas and aesthetics. But most of the time it comes from seeing what is current and new in art and fashion and contrasting it to things I have seen in the past. I am really influenced by the people I am surrounded by as well. 4) If you could capture an ideal photograph at any point in your life, what would it look like? What would be the setting, subject, lighting if you could just completely make it up and be able to capture it? I’d love to have photos from my favorite childhood memories. Back when nothing really mattered and everything was much much different. One that comes to mind is the sunny picnics I would go on with my dad. I love to have a photo of that. 5) How did you gain your clients and become so involved with fashion photography? I kind of see it like the time when I first started taking photos and how everything happened as very serendipitous. I was a fashion photographers assistant for about 2 years, where I met and made connections with lots of people within the industry. It also taught me a lot of skills that I would of had a hard time learning anywhere else. I took what I had learned and applied it to my own work and built from there. Meeting clients has all been by word of mouth and putting myself out there and not being afraid. I feel so lucky to have had all of the amazing opportunities that I have been given. I just keep working and seeing where it takes me. 6) What are your dreams for photography in the future? Well I am moving to NYC in the fall so during that time, working and getting an amazing assisting job. I want to keep working and working and loving what I do. Id really just love to keep doing what I love and not having to worry about anything else. Oh and Italian vogue could be pretty cool as well!
ELIJAH
MAJESKI
1) When did you begin to become interested in photography? The first memory I have of it is when i was twelve- I found this really incredibly cheap digital camera laying around the house; it was actually a key chain- which is odd. It could hold ten pictures- and I loved it. I took a lot of stupid little pictures that were tiny and grainy and terrible but my parents noticed that I loved it so they helped me get a better camera and from there it kinda stuck. 2) How would you characterize your style? Strange or odd or whimsical-and i think color plays and important role in my style, as does the subject matter which is typically my sisters or strange figures that are also just as childlike or imaginative. 3) Who inspires you the most? I’ve always resonated with people who are my age so photographers like Amber Ortolano, Natalie Kucken, Mike Bailey-Gates, Olivia Bolles, Lauren Poor, Eleanor Hardwick, and others that I am forgetting have always been inspirational to me. I just think art that you make when you are young and naive of the world is really special and it’s cool to see different art from people who live different lives yet have things in common with me like my age and surroundings. 4) Do you have any plans regarding photography in college? I do- I am attending the Pratt Institute in the fall, majoring in photography, on the broader scope of things I haven’t really figured much out yet- I just hope i have some sort of outlet to keep doing what I’m doing I love art and experimentation and I hope I can keep creating somehow I don’t really care to much where or how- which is naive I suppose but I’m so young it’s hard to say what exactly I want to do yet.
NATALIE KUCKEN
Chrissie White
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HARRIS
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