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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.
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