SincerelyYours
winter 2012 Volume 2, Issue 2
CONTENTS SAIBH EGAN page 4 manfredi caracausi page 12 evita weed page 14 jessica neuwerth page 24 layla rouge marie griffin page 36 Cole rise page 38 page 44 rebecca wnuk page 54
* Cover Photo by Rebecca Wnuk
Kate's Escape by Saibh Egan http://www.saibhegan.com
CONTRIBUTERS Founder and Editor-In-Chief ANGELA MARKSBERRY
Co-Editor
LAUREN POTTER
Graphic Design
ANGELA MARKSBERRY
Staff
anna gutermuth
Featured Artists manfredi caracausi Saibh egan marie griffin jessica neuwerth cole rise layla rouge evita weed rebecca wnuk
SPOTLIGHT
Manfredi Caracausi
evita weed //Photographer
What inspires you most? I'm inspired in my day to day, everything around me, internet, the landscapes that surround me, photo books, movies, everything used to create and inspire. If you could photograph anyone, who would you choose? I would have loved to photograph Audrey Hepburn. How much do you plan out your photos? I don’t plan, images arise. I just plan to go to a certain place and once I’m there, I begin to take many photographs.
What’s your favorite thing to do when you have some down time? I enjoy spending time taking pictures with my partner where we can be alone with nature. Also, I like to discover new places, go to forests, rivers, beaches. Who would you love to collaborate with? Annie Leibovitz!! I love her work!
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jessica neuwerth //Photographer
What inspires your photography most? I’m inspired by many things, from song lyrics to books to the idea of creating the realistically impossible; but what I think inspires me the most is open skies and nearly-endless landscapes, both of which I'm very lucky to live close to. Growing up, I've always appreciated the fact that where I live has more space than we have people, and I've always known what it is to feel dwarfed by the enormity of empty space and giant sky. Most of what I express in my photos tries to capture that feeling of smallness; the feeling that we are small enough that we are truly free.
What first interested you in photography? I don't honestly remember a time when I wasn't taking photos, for some reason or another. I think the drive to capture beautiful things which may be fleeting in a way that is "permanent" is what truly got me started on the photographic road I'm on today. What's one of your favorite photographs by another artist? Why? It's so hard to choose just one! I am inspired by so many of the photographers I've found on Flickr and other places that it would be difficult to choose just one specific example. Lately I've discovered the photographer Julian Bialowas (http://www.flickr.com/ photos/julianbialowas/), and I'm particularly in love
with the work he did during his 365. I think combining a photo with words that make it more thoughtprovoking, and not less, is an art that makes both the words and the picture more beautiful. Do you have any habits/ rituals that you do to prepare for a photoshoot? Usually, I don't know what I'll take pictures of before I come across it, so my usual habit is to throw any props I have in my car and drive until I find inspiration. The only two things I always have to make sure I have are music and my camera!
What's your most prized possession? My first thought was my camera, because I honestly don't know how I'd be able to get along without it, but I think my camera actually comes in a very narrow second to my very favorite thing. A couple of years ago, I was given my grandmother's old engagement ring, which I wear every day and love an incredible amount. With just it and my camera, I think I could be perfectly happy.
SPOTLIGHT
layla rouge
Marie griffin //Photographer
Which medium do you prefer working in, film or digital? The process of film is more fun, but now that I'm out of school I don't have a darkroom to use and sending off my pictures would be no fun. So, I definitely use digital more. Do you have a favorite place you like to shoot at? Here in my hometown of Salisbury there is a place called the bullhole. It has this huge waterfall and lots of shallow water to wade in. Also, on the way from Wilmington, there is this humongous construction area that looks like a big desert. It’s definitely one of my favorites!
Where do you plan to go with photography? I would love to be a super popular wedding photographer. Weddings and bridals are a blast. Catching the intimate moments between the bride and the groom and the people they love. Bridals are a good time to experiment with fashion ideas and there’s less pressure than the wedding day. What's your favorite guilty pleasure? I spend a lot of Saturdays watching America's Next Top Model marathons with Cosmo and Glamour magazines. I'm a huge magazine junkie. So when I have Saturdays off with nothing to do that's usually where you'll find me. Who are some of your favorite photographers? I don’t really have any famous ones just other photographers I’ve found on flickr. Micah Camara, he always has fresh and interesting photos. Jenny
Woods, I found her a long time ago and she just keeps getting more popular, she's brilliant! My favorite wedding photographer is Caroline Tran. She has the cutest ideas!
COLE RISE //Photographer
What inspired your series, Explorations with Space? Well, cosmology is a big source of inspiration. I can't stress enough how small we really are, and I try to remind people of that fact often. We're really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really small. Though amazingly, our clouds on earth look a hell-of-a-lot like light-year scale dust clouds in space. Space is where we came from. I love that fact that we're all made of the same stuff. The iron you find in the ground is the same iron you find in our blood, which was literally made by the fusing of atoms in the center of stars. Crazy! It's also about perspective, and I mean that in a couple of ways. Sure, landscapes can be vast and at times beautiful, but they also have a lengthy and evolving history, of which we're only a ridiculously small part of. From the perspec-
tive of a 76 million-yearold mountain range like the Rockies, we're a bunch of fast-moving, minuscule blips, but to us they seem huge, static and unchanging. It's kinda cool to consider, makes you feel small and temporary.
inherent with shooting digital. Each photo presents a set of unique challenges and I love learning while trying to solve them. I can spend weeks editing a single digital photo, massaging colors, textures and light. Not only do you have a lot of control over the image, mistakes are cheap. You can undo things, save your progress and go back to tweak variables you'd otherwise have to try in a whole new print in a traditional darkroom.
DSLR as a light meter. With only 12 frames to expose per role there are far fewer clicks, so few in fact, that often one roll of 120 film contains photos from multiple trips over a span of a few months. How much do you plan out your photo shoots? Somehow, I got to mashing long exposure Very rarely, if at all. I usuphotos of stars with ally have an idea as to landscapes from that. where I want to go, go On a side note, somethere, and let the photos times I'll intentionally find me. Wardrobe is the call it "cosmetology", only planned bit, if I'm which usually puts this traveling with someone, wonderful twist in peowhich basically amounts ples faces as they try to Film on the other hand to making sure there's imagine for a moment is a medium for presat least one cool dress how makeup has anyervation. It's a single in the back of the car. thing to do with landmoment captured and Sometimes I'm lucky scapes. revealed over a series and find myself shooting in front of huge Do you prefer working of chemical processes. It's pure. I leave it abso- brush fire, or in salt flats in film or digital? lutely unaltered, so all of on a clear night with no I love and use both for the work has to happen moon and only the gadifferent reasons. For right up to the click. It's lactic center lighting the me, digital has always fun guessing the expo- salt. Other times, I'm just been a medium for exsure, though I'll someenjoying the scenery as perimentation & growth. times cheat and use my it floats by. I love the latitude that's
What are some bands that always put you in a great mood? Great question! No one's ever asked me that. Here are my top six in no particular order: • Tycho • Jónsi and Alex • Bon Iver • Iron & Wine • Nine Inch Nails - especially the Ghosts album. • Houses
REBECCA WNUK
//Photographer
What first interested you about photography? The fact that it could capture real life without capturing reality. Who is a photographer that you admire? Oh, I have a whole list of photographers I love. Recently, I've been very much into Nirrimi Firebrace's and Natalie Kucken's work. If you could photograph anyone from past or present, who would it be? Can they be fictional? I would absolutely love to photograph Tyler Durden.
What does your photography mean to you? Everything, to put it simply. I breathe it. Your favorite guilty pleasure movie? I'd have to say Mean Girls. It's just so awful that I love it.
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