finder #3/2014 Â
Finder Magazine #3/2014
Editor-in-Chief: Gabriela Grossmannová
Language and Translation Correction: Jozef „Dodo“ Gál
Contact: magazine.finder@gmail.com www.facebook.com/finder.magazine Cover photo by Rose Claw http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddru275/
Irina Munteanu * Katharina Sophia Grabner * Kim Hamlet * Leire Galarza * Lucie Zelenå * Valerie Lear * Paula Marchesini * Marine Beccarelli * Terry Magson * Carmen Marchena * Agata Kucharska * Stefany Alves * Sebastian Nycz * Rose Claw * Natur.echt * Kelsey Ipsen * Kamila Wiśmierska * Erica Pozza
Irina Munteanu (19), Romania http://www.flickr.com/photos/skippedheartbeats/
“Young dreamer living by the sea, seeking beauty and capturing emotions, glimpses of skin, intimacy and feelings. The most important part of my photographic evolution and also my biggest inspiration is the man I love and all the beautiful details around him.”
Katharina Sophia Grabner (28), England http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegalleryoffrost/ Â
"These pictures are my diary. My obsession are cause and effect – how a face mirrors the weight of a life, this particular day; how we react to someone’s presence or absence, and how photographer and subject inevitably react to each other. I like coffee, hyacinths and the color green, and I rather like abandoned houses.
Kim Hamlet (25), USA http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimason/
Designer and film photographer Kim Hamlet started taking photos around three years ago documenting her life and longtime home in Northwest Washington. The varied natural landscapes, unique quality of light, and unexpected moments of beauty are her inspiration. She is lovingly devoted to 35mm film, and is happiest looking through the lens of her 1970's Nikon Fm. “For me, photography is like meditation. Seeing with vivid clarity the beauty that surrounds us and pausing, just long enough, to take it all in. Like slowly waking from deep sleep, thumbing through a stack of prints for the first time feels like revisiting distant memories of what we saw and felt while we dreamed.”
Leire Galarza (23), Spain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leiregalarza/
“I pursue the delicacy, the deepness and simplicity at the same time, the Sunday morning light, the ephemeral nature of a hug or a look. I have a special connection to the sea, I don't know why but it makes me feel nostalgia and freedom at the same time.â€? Â
Lucie Zelená (17), Czech Republic “I’m Lucie, I’m almost 17 and sometimes it’s hard for me to talk about myself and my photography. I live in a small town and even though I do not like it here I always try to find something new. I have countless little pleasures in my life. I like to send and receive written letters, read favorite passages from books to those I care about; making pancakes for breakfast for my dearest, waking up while the sun shines through the blind, getting lost in the crowd in a concert, sun-drying my hair during the summer... But most of all I love capturing to photographs. Just the way it is. Be it the life passing around me, or just as a thought, a fantasy or an imagination in my head.”
Valerie Lear (49), Canada
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anydirectflight/
“I was born in France and spent the first 20 years of my life there, before moving to Canada. Living far from what will always be Home to me has had a big impact on who I am today... someone who is always torn between two continents and always somewhat yearning for Home... I use my cameras to record moments of my daily life, beauty in the everyday and in the ordinary is what inspires me. My photos are a visual record of my very ordinary life, both here in Canada and in France where I go back regularly to see friends and family and to fill myself with the feeling of Home... While I also shoot with a digital camera, I rediscovered film a few years ago and fell in love with it all over again...”
Paula Marchesini (36), Argentina https://www.facebook.com/PaulaMarchesiniFotografiasParadise
"She created a universe where the child is a little king, the paradise seems to be the childhood in his work. She is inspired by 19th century & of 20th, with the very particular argentic bead. Its photos make us evolve in a carefree, sweet & poetic time." [Photos for hangovers is a photographic project for selecting the best of young contemporary photographers from all around the world with mystic, the poetic, dream and the melancholic spirit]
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Marine Beccarelli (25), France
http://www.flickr.com/photos/i_used_to_be_a_coccinelle/
"I'm Marine Beccarelli, I was born and raised in France in a little town in the Alps, close to the borders with Italy and Switzerland. As I child, I could spend hours looking at old family photographs. Doing so, something very powerful was happening inside of me, between imagination, emotion and fascination. When I became old enough to take pictures by myself, I started to create my own images, willing to capture moments and beauty. I'm now 25 and still trying to achieve that with film photography."
Terry Magson (32), England
What do you like about analog photography? “A handful of things, for me it feels more of an art form. The mystery of how the photos will actually turn out excites me, as i'm really not to sure what I'm doing half the time. You have tho's few moments were you think you may have a taken an interesting shot, but have noway of clarifying this until the films developed. The Colour. I also like the aesthetic of how a photo looks and feels once scanned. You could say by scanning it makes the photo digital, but for me it gives it a defined date, like it existed sometime yesterday, in the past.”
Which one of your cameras do you use the most and why? “I use a Zenit. It's like a russian tank, and smells great. It's a pretty easy camera to operate.”
You make music as well... Can you describe your work? “Doom pop or something. My music is pretty miserable, sombre. It has an honest raw emotion running through it tho.” What was first - did you start with photography first, or was it music? “I would say music, photography came shortly after.” Who or what inspires and influences you to make art? “Sight, sound, sausages and silence.”
You can find Terry’s photos and music here https://www.facebook.com/Puzzle.Muteson
Carmen Marchena, Germany (living in Spain) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17666600@N02/
“Navigating between ices... makes me feel free.�
“This photo was taken during my one week travelling in a van. It is dedicated to my best friend, who is not in my life anymore.”
“I really love capturing moments in which I need to express the vastness, how small we are and the beauty that surrounds us.”
“The travel that changed me... My first time in Iceland”
“This moment, a turning point in my life...”
“To hear the sea, makes me survive.”
“Walking on glacier to know how small I am.”
Agata Kucharska (27), Poland http://www.flickr.com/photos/98867887@N02/
“Living with one eye closed and the other one looking through the glass. In the middle of a crowded world, letting go. What's real and what's made up, it doesn't matter. I see beauty in everything and everyone.”
Stefany Alves, England http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonoway/
Sebastian Nycz (24), Poland
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastianny/
“My name is Sebastian. I am almost 24 and I am finishing my studies. I was born and grew up in a small town surrounded by forest in south-eastern Poland. But I started taking photos when I have moved to Kraków and met a girl with an old analogue camera... I have never thought of myself as a photographer. I'm just taking photos because of many reasons: to learn watching, to show there is good in the world, to remember moments, to slow down, because the world and the people are worthy.”
Rose Claw (28), Italy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddru275/
"I've always been intrigued by photography because it feels like one of the most natural acts to me. As a left-handed person I tend to be a visual thinker: words may fade away, or be misinterpreted, but images in my mind just don't, they're true to themselves and undeletable. Photography offers a unique way to show these images to other people, to share my world and point of view with others. Everything can inspire me: the woods, London (I have a crush on the UK and I go there frequently), light, life, death, abandoned places, cats, books, hands, gestures, the nothingness, the '70s... Photography is also an expedient to freeze time, now that life is faster and everything happens so much. Â
When I was a little kid, days seemed to last forever. Summer afternoons felt just endless, summer in Italy is ridiculously long, and vacations from school were three whole months of complete bliss. I live in north-west Italy, by the sea, and what I did all those years was just hanging around in the sun. When I grew up school became more demanding, then I got a place of my own, a job, and considerably less time to wander, although I'll forever be a wanderer at heart. So I really need to fix somewhere the things I want to remember and my pictures are my diary, the only one I care to keep. Besides, photography is a lot of fun. I never say “I want a photo like this.” They just happen, I don't plan anything, I don't set them up. And that's also one of the main reasons why I shoot film instead of digital. Film is never completely predictable, every roll is magic, unexpected. Alive. Wherever my future will take me, I think I'll take photographs for the rest of my life."
Natur.echt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77271736@N04/
Kelsey Ipsen (24), France
http://cargocollective.com/kelseyipsen Â
“Kelsey Ipsen is a 24 years old writer and dreamer living in France. Photography makes her heart beat faster. She's a cat person.�
Kamila Wiśmierska (19), Poland http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanillegriotte/
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"I am intrigued in the human soul, because this is the hardest thing to put on a photo. I still search myself in my photography. So I do the photography as a way to find the most hidden sparks of the soul, even if they are not directly in a human being." Â
Erica Pozza (21), Italy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_po
“A picture can save people from the agony of continuous time, so I bring my camera every day, probably annoying all my friends with that "click".”
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