And I Still MIss You..., Issue 15

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Matthew Szyca Diana Daia Bogdan Radenkovic Martina Maffini Diana Santisteban


Matthew Szyca U.n.t.i.t.l.e.d.0.0.9.5.

Tell us briefly about you and your work

Where do you find inspiration?

Hi! It’s Matthew here. I’m a young, optimistic,

Hmm.. I think everywhere. When I look in

polish graphic designer.

a beautiful eyes of my girlfriend, when I walk

My real adventure with graphic has started 8 years ago, after I wanted to be an architect.

through the street or when I’m on the bus. Sometimes I’m looking through other websites with graphics. In fact, it’s hard to answer,

Now I’m on the 3rd year of my IT studies and

when everything, which is around you make you

I’m working as a 2D artist in Playsoft Company.

inspired. The greatest ideas are coming when

I’m creating interfaces on mobile software

you don’t even expect them.

applications, like Apple or Bada OS and I’m a freelancer [all] at once...

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What were you just doing?

My favourite...

Just working, answering for these questions,

I really like doing that what I’m doing now. I feel

creating a new interface, thinking about new

very good in it and it makes me happy, when

projects with my friends, holidays and many

I am creating useful and artistic things.

many others...

I can’t imagine my short life without art. Music! Especially rock, metal, alternative, chill-out. Movies! Butterfly effect, Notebook, The Watchman, New series of Batman, James Bond (But not with Craig), Taken. I could watch them all the time. And my favorite artists: Picasso, Henri Matisse; because I like history of art.


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Diana Daia Concert Photography

Tiger Lillies, Agent Side Grinder, Black Heart P

Tell us briefly about you and your work

Where do you find inspiration?

I am a Berlin-based photographer born in the

In static, paraphilias and conformity. I’m mostly

Eastern Bloc, Romania. Constantly driven

interested in behavioral patterns and how

to circles and transit points, I am tempted

stereotypes pushed to extremes function,

to gradually expand to other artistic mediums

although by asserting that, the method becomes

without following a specific path. Lately, I’ve

a stereotype in itself.

become more and more interested in concert photography, not necessarily for the vraisemblance quality of the image, but for the mood suggested by the performance and how it can tie in with the resulted photograph. My finished artwork includes a lot of rendering done digitally, which tends to create a completely different frame than the original one. I guess it sometimes confuses a bit both the performers and the people who have been present at the gigs, but it also introduces new perspectives on approaching the theme.

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Procession, Xeno and Oaklander / Berlin 2009-2010

What were you just doing?

My favourite...

Googling a Russian film that I watched some

My favourite blend consists of crimson eyeballs

years ago. I fail to remember its name although

and a pair of scissors in a local sewer.

I have a film still as background on my phone. It includes two girls in black veil carrying a wooden box with a modified cross of Loraine in it.


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Bogdan Radenkovic Smell of dust and

Tell us briefly about you and your work

Where do you find inspiration?

Through visualizations of my views I try to

In almost all forms of art. From Ansel Adams

memorize emotions of certain time fragments

and J. S. Bach through Nietzsche and Wagner

and make them universal. Presented series “smell

to Kieslowski and Sartre. We are inevitable

of dust� are projections of past times and traces

surrounded by influences.

of socialism.

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socialism

What were you just doing?

My favourite...

Eating chocolate. (Chocolate addict)

My favorite composer is Gustav Mahler.


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Martina Maffini la ciudad invisible

Tell us briefly about you and your work

Where do you find inspiration?

I’m Italian but I spend the past years between

My inspiration come from light, nature,

Italy, France and Argentina.

landscapes, planes that I take, music, books that

I’m traveling for living, and every time I find a new job that allows me to continue to travel. I photograph things that I like at first sight, things that surround me and that matches with what I’m feeling.

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I read, poetry, love, sufferings, melancholy, from many photographers that I like (Luigi Ghirri, Joel Sternfeld, Alexander Gronsky...)


What were you just doing?

My favourite...

I just come back from Argentina where I lived

My favourite music is rock’n’roll.

during the winter. It’s such a beautiful place, I want to go back and stay with my friends!


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Diana Santisteban Spring Days

Tell us briefly about you and your work

Where do you find inspiration?

I am a college student studying journalism and

I tend to find inspirations from cult movies,

photography. I love for my photos to make

stylish people and books. Some ideas just come

people happy and to see a little bit of what

out of nowhere from things I see on the streets

I see. Mostly, I like my work to feel uplifting as

and my friends.

well as mysterious. I love the sense of mystery when people view a certain photograph and they cant identify with the subject, but can still find it beautiful.

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I think nature is also very inspiring. It really thrives me to create something with it.


What were you just doing?

My favourite...

I was listening to old Daft Punk songs and

My favorite time of the year is fall because

getting excited that they are reuniting.

summer is too warm in Florida.


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And I Still Miss You... is curated & published by Peter Skwiot Smith. All artwork is used with the kind permission of the artist.

This magazine is set in M+ 1c.

http://www.andistillmissyou.com/ http://www.skwiotsmith.com/


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