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Preface The World Through Green Eyes is a blog and magazine based on the relationship between human and nature, we work on the base of Trees, Wood, Green, Wild Girls & Pretty Bunny. This magazine was created to give space for new Photographers, to let known their name to the world and to demonstrate their love for the Land. The World Through Green Eyes is for everyone who loves photography Mother Nature, for everyone who loves to be wild.

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Edited and curated by Luca Tommaso Cordoni Artists: Hollie Fernando, Lisa Smit, Ivan Beltikow, Elizabeth Mahoney, Bianca Gutman, Amanda Pulley, Rhiannon Adam,Carmen Palermo, Alan Marcheselli Polaroiders,Kevin J Hsia, Mariam Sitchinava, Igor Termenรณn, Rita Lino, Elena Vaninetti, Michal Pudelka, Arianna Lerussi, Sara Rios, Pedro Magalhรฃes, Matthew Tammaro, Silvia Ianniciello, Paper St., Cecilia Cappelli, Matteo Balsamini, Ben Giles, Eni Turkeshi, Pretty in Mad, Andy Jenkins, Michel Jones, Nicola Clark, Sam Clark, Inbar Vaks, Charlotte Thรถmmes, Florian Ruiz, Carla Cascales Alimbau. Cover: Luca Tommaso Cordoni

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Index A talk with... Hollie Fernando

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A talk with... Lisa Smit

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A talk with... Ivan Beltikow

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A talk with... Elizabeth Mahoney

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A talk with... Bianca Gutman

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A talk with... Amanda Pulley

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A talk with... Rhiannon Adam

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Polaroiders, the network of Italian artists

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A talk with... Kevin J Hsia

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A talk with...Mariam Sitchinava

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Girls on Film

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A talk with... Rita Lino

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Via Monte Nevoso,8

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A talk with... Michal Pudelka

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Arianna Lerussi

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The Trend Reinvented

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A talk with... Matthew Tammaro

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Prague in Low-fi

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Paper St. interviewed by Hanna Hollow

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The Best Food Blog Ever

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Crown

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A talk with... Ben Giles

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Yummania

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Holga my dear/Pretty in Mad

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A talk with... Andy Jenkins

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Michel Mijonju Jones

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Lomo Lovers

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I like plant, I like cook it... 333Bracket

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Bianca Gutman, Kuusi

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Charlotte Thommes, Lake of Death

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Florian Ruiz, Fukushima invisible pain

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A talk with... Carla Cascales Alimbau

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The Artists

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TWTGE Magazines

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INTERVIEWS from TWTGE blog & magazines

A TALK WITH... HOLLIE FERNANDO from twtge.com, November 2010 Hollie Fernando is a 19 years old photographer from Sutton, London, and student at the University of Portsmouth. Her vision is 360 degrees but addressed to fashion photography. I fell in love with her with her COUPLES PROJECT. I love her Black and White film, her models thrown into the nature and her multiple exposure, all suspended between that past and future that we like so much. Hello Hollie, please introduce yourself. I am a 19 year old photography student, studying at Portsmouth University. I live in a box room full of junk and clutter and am most content when I am watching an amazing film in bed with a hot chocolate, having my back tickled. What is your relationship with nature? I feel that I belong around nature, I have always grown up in parts of the city where there have been woods and parks and I am just as near to the countryside as I am to central London. Right on my doorstep I have the most amazing woods and that is where most of my photos are taken when to do with nature. I am currently living in Portsmouth which has no woods at all and I do feel less inspired by the city scenes, as to me I plan photos to do with natural and simple settings so I can reflect my moods through them. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I really hope it will not gradually become more and more built up, as there is too much beauty to destroy. I don’t even want it to become more modern looking, but I guess that’s just because I like old fashioned stuff. It will probably be all new and refurbished and cleaner, and hopefully they’ll leave some trees for me. What is Photography? To me photography is the main way I express myself. I pour my heart and soul into my photographs, both before and after I take them. I am able to show people how I feel about things through a photograph and I find I can easily portray my moods through them, sometimes even subconsciously. Photography’s not only about my photos but it’s also about other artists as well, how they make me feel and how they inspire me to move to bigger things. How did you get into photography?

My dad took photos with an old pentax, but he never considered it to be anything more than a hobby. He did have lots of old cameras in the loft, and finding these made me first interested in taking photos. I think at first I was just curious and wanted the challenge to figure out how to work these old cameras and then once I got the hang of it I found it the only thing I wanted to do in my life.

How your career of fashion photographer started? Basically it involved me and my best friends wanting to document our clothes. I have never used a stylist, I always style the models myself or with help of my friends. I am very lucky to have incredibly fashionable friends. I am attracted to fashionable people who look like they haven’t tried hard to be who they are, and I like capturing this. Your models are so beautiful, are they professionals or friends? The majority of my models are friends and family. I choose to shoot with them as they can act naturally in front of me, and I can make them feel really comfortable in front of the camera. It’s like the camera is a part of me and doesn’t get in the way of the emotions I am wishing illustrate. However, if I was to be asked to take photos of someone I don’t know, I find I can get on with people so easily that we would hang out a big before and create this bond of comfortableness so that they can feel relaxed in front of me. Who are your favourite photographers? My all time favourite photographer is Sally Mann, and I think she is who inspires me to create that beautiful, natural and simplistic atmosphere to my photos. She has also attracted me to old and unloved cameras that give the best imperfections. Others include Pip, Mel Bles, Logan White, Elizabeth Johnson and Lina Scheynius. What kind of camera do you use? I shoot with a number of different cameras; my favourite being my Canon T70. I also use a Nikon FA and my digital Canon 500D. I have a lot of toy cameras and other cheap film ones from jumble sales that I like to experiment with. You prefer to use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I definitely prefer Film. Everything about it amazes me, it’s so sensitive and you have to take great care with it. I belong in the darkroom. You have endless resources with digital but on film each picture is special and more calculated. The effects gained are full of imperfections which add character. This, I believe, is why I am not that keen on digital as it looks way to perfect and clean for my ideas and style. If I do use digital, I add noise and imperfections on Photoshop before I feel comfortable with it. I do believe people always go against the norm, and digital being mainly used today means it makes a lot of people resort to using film. Do you have some favourite film? Black and white film i will always use Ilford for its quality and colour varies as you can achieve great effects with the cheapest and shittiest films. I love your couples set, how is your relationship with love? I have always been in love, I am not someone who likes being single at all

I need the company and bonds and moments shared. Its just how i have always been. I find it really easy to create this feeling of love and capture it when on shoots. Some of the couples in my set aren’t even together which just shows you! Love is the biggest inspiration in my life, and i have a feeling it always will be. It’s what life is about. Do you prefer to stay in front of or behind the lens? Definitely behind the lens, although i am experienced on the modelling side. Where people can find you and your works? All my best work is on FLICKR, and you will see loads of photos all over tumblr and other blogs which is really nice. I am currently working on a WEBSITE so it will be easier to have everything laid out more simply for people who don’t understand flickr. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Some work that is coming up will be to do with the city i live in, and of my new found love as he is the one who inspires me most at the moment. What would you like to ask to our next Interviewee? Do you process your own work when using film? WWW.HOLLIEFERNANDOPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

************ A TALK WITH... LISA SMIT from twtge.com, December 2010 Lisa Smit is a real wild girl born in Holland, grew up between her Land and Australia ,with animal less wild that she is. A girl hungry of photography, she take photos of all her eyes can see day by day, potraits, concerts, and selfs so intimate that I love so much with her horizons and cuts. Lisa is a girl to know, so funny and, to make matters worse, she study medicine at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Hi Lisa, please introduce yourself. Hi! To be honest, I really don’t like talking about myself, and in particular not introducing myself. But because you really seem curious, I’ll give it a try. So here you go. I’m Lisa Smit. Nineteen winters ago I was born, at the same place where I still live now, the freezing Netherlands. My parents raised me to what I am now, open minded, feeling freest when listening to music, especially when it’s live at a good concert. Besides visiting concerts, taking photographs and hiding at home underneath my blankets because of the cold and the snow that is now falling on the other side of my window, I study medicine at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. What is your relationship with nature? 4

I am nature, nature is me. I grew up as a kid in Australia, when my parents

where travelling there for months. Feeding kangaroos, hunting crocodiles, trying to catch tarantulas. Back in the Netherlands I tried to catch frogs instead, and kept them at my room as a pet, with my dad chasing mosquitoes to feed them. At the moment I enjoy nature as it is; I love to see the colours of the trees changing when summer turns to autumn, I love to sit at the beach for hours, just to hear the waves, wild and free. My point is that there’s so much beauty around, in everything. When people say they are alone, I’m never able to understand them. Surrounded by the air (they breathe), the water (they drink) and the trees (which they can hug), the feeling of loneliness is something you almost can’t experience. When you think of al the nature around you… 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? To be entirely honest, I am kind of afraid for what the world (or actually the people on this earth) will look like in 20 years. It might be my fantasy, it might be because of the futuristic surreal movies I have seen, or it might be my subconsciousness which already knows it all. I am afraid. Afraid that the world and the humans in them will look like what they showed in The Matrix or Mr. Nobody. I just hope that my fantasy and my subconsciousness is as surreal as the movies I’ve seen. What is Photography? Photography. Writing/drawing with light, according to the ancient Greek, but in 2010 still as true as it was over 2000 years ago. To me the writing and drawing part even makes it more personal, as a way to express myself, because those are the three things I like to do most: writing, drawing, and especially those two combined with the use of light. How did you get into photography? Really, I can’t remember. It is just something which I slowly got into; watching photo albums at my grandparents, taking pictures with my dad’s camera which was way to huge for my tiny hands. But I do not have one special memory that made me think ‘I want to be a photographer’. Lets blame it on my filled-with-holes brains. You’re a girl who is hungry to photograph, but in which type of photography do you put in ? I especially like the ‘daily photography’. Just ordinary things you come along on your way to school, when you are sitting at home watching outside your window, standing at the station waiting for a train to come. Besides that I also like people, catching their emotions on film. As long as I can make people, looking at my pictures, feel that they belong, that there’s beauty everywhere. You use film too, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? My thought is that everyone has to do what they want to do. If you like to shoot digital, shoot digital. Digital has some advantages too. Personally I like film better though. You describe it as ‘nostalgic’, I’d rather say it’s more exciting. You never know how something will turn out.

Hollie Fernando in our last interview wants to know if Do you process your own work when using film? I don’t process my own work when I use film, no. Unfortunately I’m not the fortunate owner of a dark room for myself. What kind of camera do you use? I use different kind of cameras. Digital and film. My tiny collection exist of a Nikon D5000, a Canon EOS 1000F, a Pentax Espio 738, a Fujifilm FinePix, fun cams, and disposables. But tiny collections are made to be huge, hopefully! You like be model for your self, do you do model for other photographer? I don’t model for other photographers. I’d rather be behind the camera than in front of it. I really love your selfs, your nudes and the two blind Lisa remember me the work of Francesca woodman, is an inspiration or a coincidence? She has not been an inspiration for those photographs. It must have been coincidence. To be honest, the first time I heard that my photos reminded someone of Francesca Woodman, I had to find out who she was… But I do definitely like her work (so I’m very flattered by your compliment), and I should feel ashamed that I did not already know her back then. Who are your favourite photographers? My favourite photographer is definitely Ryan McGinley. Other favourites are Neil Krug, Alison Scarpulla, Margaret Durow and Lina Scheynius. You have some future projects? At the moment I don’t have any future projects planned. Most of the time my photographs are spontaneous or thoughts that my brain had created a few hours and sometimes even seconds before. But today is my first day of my holiday, so who knows what December will bring.. Where people can find you and your works? You can find my works on my website WWW.LISASMIT.TK, or on my FLICKRPAGE. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? You made me think about things I usually don’t think about, and I love taking my thoughts to a next level. Also, I’m curious how I’ll look back on this little interview when the earth has changed to a ‘Matrix’world into 20 years, which I hope I can prevent. Look to the world through green eyes. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? How environmentally conscious are you? 6

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A TALK WITH… IVAN BELTIKOW from twtge.com, January 2011 Ivan Beltikow is a young Russian photographer. We just love him cause he shooting only with film. Him style is a personal view of fashion, in a world between nature and civilization, this relationship was established by him memories with him father and the love for the historic architecture of his country of which he is worried. Ivan is a photographer exceptional, attentive and sensitive. Keep an eye on, he’ll has a certain future. Hello Ivan, please introduce yourself. Hello there! My name is Ivan, I was born and lived my life in Russia. Thank you very much, Lu, for this interview, I believe that what you’re doing is really great and it’s important for us all. Thanks to you Ivan. What is your relationship with nature? Well, my interaction with nature began very long time ago, since childhood. When our family went to the cottage, we are often with dad, went into the woods, walked out there on the debt, collecting mushrooms and just went for our own pleasure, until exhausted. Then Dad would sit me on the neck, I was asleep, and he carried me home. Now, years later, find themselves in nature for me – like a breath of fresh air, I can walk through the fields, woods for hours, especially if I’m alone. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I think that 20 years later our world will not change much, but something I think, unfortunately, undergo some changes. First scares me that every year more and more changed architecture of historical cities. I say this because I live in one of the most beautiful cities, and I have to watch, over time, destroy historical monuments, old and beautiful houses, and in their place, grow in ordinary supermarkets. Lisa Smit in our last interview wants to know how environmentally conscious are you? (How do you personally keep the earth ‘green’?) Thanks to Lisa Smith for a good question!I believe that in such matters, we must first start with youself, because while on this planet will be living people who unconscious and aimlessly killing our planet’s resources – it will continue to deteriorate. As for me personally – I am a firm confidence that throw garbage in specially provided for his tank, as well with me, since childhood, live two hairy friend – a dog and a cat, whom I love very much. I instilled a warm attitude towards animals. What is Photography? Nowadays, photography is quite modified. More and more photographers put in first priority photo quality, thereby forgetting that the photo should not be just a beautiful picture, but it should convey to the audience the main thing – the idea. I certainly do not thereby downplaying the importance of image quality, especially when it comes to film photography, in which the photo quality is also a measure of skill photographer. I want to say that the picture must have a soul.

How did you get into photography? The first time I picked up a camera and loaded my first film was about 3.5 years ago. This was with the Zenit, get me from a friend of mine. The first film was about 3.5 years ago. This was with the Zenit, get me from a friend of mine. The first steps to deal with the camera have been helped by my dad, when he was young he also shots on Zenit, but later he gave it to his friend in India for memory. That’s how I started taking pictures, and later became interested in it, and now, wherever I went, I always have in my bag my camera. And into the world of fashion photography? As for fashion – here is rather difficult to answer. As you can see my pictures have little in common with, say, photos from the magazine Vogue, which in turn, our world is ideally fall under the word “fashion”. I have, perhaps, a more own natural vision of fashion, which I am guided by shooting. Who are your favourite photographers? This is a picture dealing with the classic black and white photography. I can name two – Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. I love too Doisneau. What kind of camera do you use? Now I use the Minolta x-700 with MC Rokkor-PF 58/1.4. You use only film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I do not support and do not like digital photography. And do it not because of what is fashionable trends, but because it firmly believes that digital photography takes away from the photographer filming process in its original form, not to mention the result. Think about it – photos captured by digital technology – is encoded in the binary code image that looks like this: 10010110110101, while film cameras naturally reflect image on film. Moreover, some photographers at the time said that the film not only displays picture, but also absorbs the soul of the subject, whether human or any other item. The wonderful

models in your photos are

friends or professionals model?

I’ve never worked with professional models, all the girls and guys that I shoot – my friends or buddies. and you, being a nice guy, do you like to sit in front of the camera? Now I can firmly say that I love to be on the other side of the lens. There was a time when I did not feel comfortable, it’s true, but now we have nothing, and when someone asks me to pose – I gladly agree. What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude?

It is very important to spend some line separating art in its truest form of pornography. I have repeatedly shooting nudes, and I can say that I

was pleased with the process and the result of filming. Where people can find you and your works? My girlfriend has recently discovered that if you type my name into Google, then the request will be a lot of my photos, and not just on Flickr. Some people add my photos in their blogs and social networks such as tumblr, facebook, etc., Signing my name under them, and it displays their search engine. In addition to FLICKR, I do not spread anywhere else my photos, but my pages on FACEBOOK and vkontakte. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Nothing really important will not come to mind. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Are there any standards or preferences when choosing a model (girls, boys, children) or in the exterior (for example: thinness, hair color, skin)? WWW.FLICKR.COM/CALIBER44

************ A TALK WITH… ELIZABETH MAHONEY from twtge.com, February 2011 Elizabeth Mahoney is an amazing photographer from Reigate, a town near London, and a Student of Photography at the Camberwell College of Arts. She is a very film lover and she love to stay in the dark room, this passion is visible in all her work. We love she , her B&W, her double and multi exposure and her so close cut where we can see all the beauty of humanity. A truly Photographer to know. Hi Elizabeth, please introduce yourself. Hello, my names Elizabeth. I live in Reigate which is about an hour away from London, I’m studying photography at Camberwell College of Arts. I’m eighteen years old and my favourite colour is green. What is your relationship with nature? Well without nature what would we have? Ever since I was a child I have loved being outdoors, exploring the world and climbing trees and making mud pies. Nature is the one thing that never fails to take my breath away; I want to travel the world and see everything. I want to see the northern lights and the Antarctic, and mountains and redwood trees and tigers and bears and everything! Studying in London has made me realise just how much I need to be surrounded by nature, I think I would be much happier living in a log cabin somewhere up a mountain, or maybe a tree house. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I don’t think it will change too much, I suppose there will be more super markets and roads and less green. I’m not sure how much I want to see the

world in twenty years. What is Photography? I think nowadays people think of photography too technically, they focus too much on the hundreds of buttons on a digital slr. A photograph needs to mean something to you, it needs to freeze and capture an idea or an emotion. I love how one photograph can change your opinion, your judgement, your beliefs, in an instant, sometimes without you even realising. I think photography can be one of the most powerful things in the world. How did you get into photography? My dad always used to carry around an old Olympus film camera, whenever he finished a film he would empty the chamber and let me carry it around and pretend to take photos, after a while he let me have a go with some real film and from then on I’ve been infatuated. I think college was when I realised just how much I love photography, I was shown how to use a darkroom and spent the best part of two years in there; so much my friends ended up calling me the ‘troglodyte’. I love trying to figure out how things work, opening up old cameras and watching all the cogs turn and the shutter snap. So you must know that I’m a “so close portrait” lover, for many reasons, so I love your style so much, and I’m curious to know your reasons about this choice. I think close ups allow the viewer to feel more connected with the subject, especially when they’re looking right into the camera, you almost feel as if you are there with them, like you know them. Ivan Beltikow in our last interview wants to know if there are any standards or preferences when you choosing a model or in the exterior? I photograph my friends a lot; I think I’m just really lucky to know a lot of beautiful people. My friend Chloe is my favourite person to photograph, she is absolutely beautiful in every way, and has never said no when I ask her to wake up at five in the morning and go stand in a pond for me, I think the main thing is that she trusts me, which is really important. I never turn down the opportunity to photograph anybody though, not knowing the model can make photographing them more difficult, but it can also be a positive thing and produce some really interesting results. Who are your favourite photographers? Oh gosh that’s an impossible question – I have hundreds!! I the first few off the top of my head would be Roger Dekker, Sally Mann, Diane Arbus, Hedi Slimane, Jim Goldberg, Walker Evans, Jolijn Snijders, Chad Pitman, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Bill Brandt, Mario Testino, Mary Robinson, Vivian Maier, Anton Corbijn, and Martin de Thurah but the list is endless, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that hasn’t influenced me. What kind of camera do you use?

Normally I use my om10 which is the Olympus that my dad used to use, when I have to use digital I use my Nikon d70s. I have boxes and boxes full of old cameras I’ve been given or found in junk shops and car boot sales which

are always fun to play around with. My favourite would definitely be my Zeiss Ikon Nettar which I got from Snoopers Paradise in Brighton, I love it, even the case is beautiful. I use little kodak disposables quite a bit too, I bought fifty something off ebay a while ago so I’m working through them, I just need to save up the funds to get them all developed now! You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bringing it back? I don’t like digital photographs, but I don’t deny the practicality of digital photography. I tend to bring along my digital camera to anything important just as a backup, but the pictures can never compare to a film photograph. Nothing beats the satisfaction of taking, processing and developing a photo from start to finish, not to mention the amount of time and effort that goes into it; a digital image is taken and forgotten in a second, for me anyway. There’s something about the whole film process that makes you feel like you’ve really poured yourself into the image, all the little dusk marks and imperfections just add to the character and the story of the photo – digital images are way too clean. I love how you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get with film, it’s exciting. As student of Art, do you process your own photos? Yes, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve recently learnt how to colour process which is now my new obsession. Do you have a project in progress? At the moment I’m working on a project for uni called ‘a photographic study of adolescence’ which I have some big ideas for, watch this space. Where people can find you and your work? Aside from FLICKR I don’t upload my pictures anywhere else, there seem to be quite a few floating around on tumblr and things like that too. I’m working on making myself a ‘proper’ website but I’m not so good with computers so it could be a while! Do you want to say something that I haven’t asked you? Not that I can think of. Thank you for interviewing me. Thanks to you. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? What is your favourite photograph you have ever taken and why? WWW.FLICKR.COM/ELIZABETHMAHONEY

************ A TALK WITH… BIANCA GUTMAN from twtge.com, March 2011 Bianca Gutman is a real amazing girl from Montreal, Canada. When I saw her 11

photos for the first time, it was love at first sight. She is a well of creativity, her works are a trip in her life and, especially, in her mind. There is no word to express how she’s so intense, so creative and so real, you can feel her feeling at the moment of the shot. I could say a billion things about Bianca or I could make she more questions , but she says much more through her works. Hi Bianca, or do you prefer I call you Binky? My real name is Bianca Gutman, but ever since I was a toddler, people have been calling me Binky. It is only right that you do too, friend. Good. So, Binky please introduce your self. I am a fifteen year old girl living in Montreal, Canada. I am a passionate and emotional girl who tries desperately to express herself through different forms of art. What is your relationship with nature? I have a strong relationship with nature. I am at peace when I am near nature. My soul feeds off of the natural beauty that the Earth holds. I am often turned off by the human species. This repulsion drives me closer and closer to nature. I’m in love with all that is natural. I will always be attached to the sweetness of Mother Nature. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I hate thinking about how the Earth will be in the future because quite frankly, I haven’t the slightest clue as to what it will look like. Although, I know that I am terrified. In 20 years, the Earth may look as it does today. Or maybe, some parts of land will be underwater, due to the melting glaciers caused by “global warming”. What I do know is that us humans really need to clean up our act. If we were all closer to nature (in a spiritual sense), there would be no need for fear for the future. Loving nature, our Earth, caring for her, treating her well will only lead to good. I don’t know what I hope for in the future. Maybe Earth has had enough and we deserve to suffer her death. What is wild for you? I think that the word “wild” definitely has to do with nature. I don’t think you can be wild if you are not in nature. I don’t think “wild” means out of control or crazy. I believe it means all that is natural and beautiful. To be in touch with nature, to appreciate all that it has to offer is being wild. Do you think that are more wildness in human or nature?

I think that there is wildness both in humans and nature. The early humans were wild because they were in touch with nature. Aboriginal people are wild because they too are connected with nature. I am somewhat wild because I feel most at home when I am in nature, but I also depend on unnatural things. In nature, everything is wild. From bugs to bears, from grass to forests.

What is Photography? I think that photography is the art of capturing what you wish to capture. Whether it be an emotion, a statement, a memory or a thought. That being said, I also believe that aesthetics plays a huge role in photography. It is not enough just to capture a moment; it should be an appealing image. How did you get into photography? At a very young age, I had picked up a camera and started taking many pictures. I thought it was marvelous that I could capture real life and keep it forever. I used a small power-shot camera that wasn’t very good quality for a couple of years, experimenting and challenging myself. “How can I make this photo more interesting?”, I would ask myself. “Maybe if she stands in back of the tree instead of in front of it…”. I soon became obsessed with photography. The photography is surely an art, but I think that there is a difference between artist and photographer, I think your works are surely view like an artist. So Binky, Do you consider an artist or a photographers? Well, thank you. I do consider myself an artist. Yes, photography is an art, but to make it so, you must be an artist. To be able to express [something] through any means is being an artist. The mind of an artist is an interesting one. Being able to approach [something] with a unique and creative point of view is artistic. I am an artist because I see more (or less) than what is in front of my eyes. A day in a life of an artist, even if that artist has no materials with them, is a day filled with insight, imagination and original style. Who are your favourite photographers? I have many favorite photographers. The amount of respect and admiration that I have for these artists is incredible. They are brilliant and almost God-like. RYAN MCGINLEY is one of my favorite photographers. I also love and follow SAGA SIG. What kind of camera do you use? Usually, I use a Canon Rebel XSI. Although, often I will buy disposable film cameras and use those. I also use my cellphone camera a lot, believe it or not. Any device that can capture light, I will use. You use digital camera, do you think that digital technology destroying film or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I think that a lot of young photographers, including myself, use digital cameras because that is what is available to us. That being said, I wish I had a film camera. The result of film is a beautiful and antique one… almost magical. I also love how the results are not immediate. I love having to wait for my film to be developed; it is more exciting that way! On the other hand, digital is much easier to use. With digital, you can quickly upload them to a computer and edit them. To be honest, I love both digital and film cameras.

Your works are made by little projects, how they start? Once an idea makes its way into my head, I immediately act on it. I take a deep breath, set up what has to be set up, take a trip to the forest down the road if I have to, and start shooting. Once I am satisfied with what I have shot, I sit down and review all my photos. I usually will have more than two that I am proud enough to post. These photos are strung together by one main idea, forming a “project”. Where did you get inspiration? There are several roots to my inspiration. Sometimes, I will see a photo that gives me an idea. I usually end up being unsatisfied after almost re-creating an idea that has already been photographed. I generally am inspired by my environment. I observe my surroundings and realize how interesting it would be for a setting in an image. Another inspiration comes from my mood, thoughts and emotions. My depression is generally a huge ache in my life but it is beneficial to me as a photographer. It allows me to create art that a “non-depressive” person wouldn’t be able to create. I am inspired by little things. If I see a beautiful color during my day, I may go home and try to incorporate that color into a photograph. Elizabeth Mahoney in our last interview wants to know, what is your favourite photograph you have ever taken and why? This is a tough question. I had to sleep on this one. I was never able to pick a favorite image of mine because of different reasons that are extremely complicated. I will try my best to chose one and justify my choice. Alright. THIS ONE. I must admit, I didn’t look very hard. I find this to be a very difficult task. I think it must be difficult for a lot of artists. I speak for most artists when I say that we are not usually fond of our own work. I think this may be my favorite photograph because I remember working extra hard to capture it. I was being pushed and shoved. I wanted so badly to remember how this sight seemed. My brother is in the military and had just won an award along with his peers. The proud families were waiting for the soldiers to come out of this room. The lighting was really special. The only person looking at the camera in this photo was the smallest soldier. She was the only girl and she stood out. I also like how there is movement. This photo seems to tell a story of its own. Your works are so personal, how is your relationship with the camera? Thank you. My camera and I have a love/hate relationship. Sometimes, I believe that my camera misbehaves. I will literally talk to my camera. “Fine, you don’t want to work? See if I care”, I will say to it. When I take photos that I am proud of, I will kiss or stroke my camera. Weird, huh? I treat my camera more than just an object. He is my co-partner and so I must respect him. I would never feel comfortable naked in front of anybody else but my camera. I have a better relationship with my camera than I do with my mirror. I hope that answers your question. What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude?

I believe that being nude is a beautiful thing. Being naked can be an emotional experience and emotion should always be capture on camera. When

I am naked, I feel closest to myself and my soul. Isn’t that a beautiful thing to photograph? We all have bodies. We are all naked. Society has taught us that being naked is wrong. It is not. Where people can find you and your works? My FLICKR PAGE is where people can find my work. I also have a TUMBLR where I post not only my photography, but my writing, drawing, etc. But I must warn you that it is a very personal blog. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? I would like you thank you for interviewing me, of course. And to tell you that you run a great blog featuring talented artists. Thank you so much Binky! and thank you from all the artist of TWTGE. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? I would like to ask them if they ever took a break from photography and why? WWW.FLICKR.COM/34452341@N04

************ A TALK WITH… AMANDA PULLEY from twtge.com, April 2011 Amanda is a fairy. She live in dreams and catch image with her magic cameras. This is not a fable but truth. Her photography are so soft, full of little details and color, everything is so natural, taken in a ethereal time, All supplemented by vintage clothes and girls who seem to come from the past. Amanda pulley is definitely one of my favorites photographer, I wish her a wonderful future in photography. And don’t miss her beautiful ILLUSTRATIONS. Hi Amanda, please introduce yourself. Hello! My name is Amanda Pulley and I am 18 years old. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by the idea that we can capture a moment in time to view again and again. What is your relationship with nature? Though I spend a shameful amount of time indoors, I am always most content when I’m in nature. Some of my fondest memories as a child are the Sunday afternoons hiking with my dad, summer nights spent chasing fireflies, or carving paths through Autumn leaves to ride bikes through with my sister. With my photography, I never plan anything and will very rarely use any sort of prop– So, I always prefer to take photos outdoors and am always on the lookout for stunning ways to use natural resources. What is wild for you? Something living in it’s natural state, unspoiled and free.

20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Honestly, I don’t believe it will look so much more different than it does at this moment. Ofcourse there will be constructions built up where there were none, the old will be replaced for the new, and natural occurences will always prevent the world from staying exactly as it is, but 20 years is not so very long. What is Photography? The capturing of a flicker in time. The reasoning behind someone’s want to take photographs differs from person to person, but for me it is to remember and to create something that will hopefully tell some sort of story for someone. I don’t set out to create anything really abstract or deep in meaning, rather I will simply take a photo for the sole purpose of capturing something beautiful. Your family is full of artists, your dad is a great author and illustrator, your twin sister is a photographer, and then sculptors, painters, poets… How is growning up surrounded by all this art? Thanks! Growing up around so many artists has certainly impacted me. My dad is definitely the person who inspired me the most artistically growing up. I remember being in awe of his talent and dreaming of the day when I could draw so realistically, all of this while trying my hardest to make my potato-shaped people look a bit more humanly in form. Alas, I still have trouble drawing realistically, resulting in somewhat childish sketches… How did you get into photography? My sister is the one who inspired me to not just stare in wonderment at cameras any longer, but put one to use! This happening only a few years ago. Kate (my sister), always having been fascinated by Polaroid’s, decided to purchase one and in her Polaroid taking adventures, I discovered the joy of photography, especially instant. Living in tennessee you surely surrounded by music, how much music inspired you? Oh yes, Tennessee is brimming with musicians, though I can’t say I was much influenced by any local artists. My first musical loves were The Beatles, having grown up listening to my dad’s cassette tapes of theirs what seems like thousands of time… Fast foward to today, skipping a large period in my life where I listened to many artists which should not be named and I must say that I am very much inspired by music– more so than I have been in any other time in my life. I’m not usually inspired by any song inparticular, but rather how music makes me feel and the thoughts that it provokes. Except music, Where do you get inspiration? Anywhere and everywhere! You collaborate with so much people that I love (Christina Hanson, Ian O’Hara 16

Shelbie Dimond, Christie Dupree and your sister Kate naturally), how your collaboration born? With do you works better? They’re all friends, all of which my sister and I got to know through Flickr. They’re all wonderful artists and people! Though I’ve never worked with anyone who was a complete stranger, I’m sure i prefer working with friends, as we’re usually more in-tune with one another and are more comfortable being ourselves infront/behind the camera. Bianca Gutman in our last interview wants to know if do you ever took a break from photography and why? I take many breaks from photography, actually. I never force myself to take photos. My largest breaks usually are taken in the winter, when the weather is cold and dreary, but when Spring comes around, I’m perfectly ready to leave my coat at home and explore the outdoors with my camera. Who are your favourite photographers? I always have trouble answering this question, but here are just a handful of photographers whose work has been inspiring me recently: Kate Pulley, my sister, but even if she weren’t, I’m positive I would still love her photos, Mariam Sitchinava, Lukasz Wierzbowski, Alison Scarpulla and Elif Sanem Karakoc. What kind of camera do you use? Lately, I’ve been using my Canon Ae-1 quite a bit. I also use a Polaroid SX-70, as well as a Polaroid Packfilm camera. My Nikon D80 d-slr occasionally makes an appearance, but I have much more fun using film, so it’s usually left behind. You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I definitely wouldn’t say that digital photography is destroying film photography. I think digital is a great alternative to using film, as it is very much accessible in today’s world. The number of people shooting film has perhaps died down some since the invention of digital cameras, but that’s that’s what happens when any sort of new technology is invented– people want the latest, greatest, and most uncomplicated. Many people own cameras, those of whom would rather take quick snapshots would probably prefer a digital camera, where those who are more serious about their photography will most likely experiment with both film and digital, and then it really all boils down to what you enjoy shooting with the most. I love film and will probably always prefer it over digital, but that’s just me. You likes to shot in Polaroid, did you ever use the Imqossible project film? If so, which type do you use, and what do you think about it? I’ve never used their film, though my sister has. So, I’ve gotten to see the results of their film first hand. Honestly, I think they’ve done a great job at re-creating Polaroid film and I’m so happy someone is attempting to, but there’s nothing quite like the original.

You make wonderful illustration too, do you feel more a photographer or an Illustrator? Thank you! I definitely feel more like a photographer. I love to paint, but inspiration comes in spurts and I don’t get around to painting all that often, where taking photos comes more naturally and I don’t feel the need to have an idea beforehand of what I’m going to be executing. I do not usually like to make advertise, but you and your sister run a wonderful blogshop “A World In Reverse” of vintage thing and hand-made bend, do you want to talk us about it? A WORLD IN REVERSE is a shop my sister and I created recently. We sell hand-made vintage-inspired accessories, vintage clothing and a few photography prints of our own. We originally started making hair acessories when we were really into “hippie” headbands and were finding feathers, suede… those types of things in craft stores– so, we thought it’d be fun to make our own accessories. We’re both also very much taken with vintage style and have fun scouting out the beauts amongst the unfortunate clothing creations of the past– so, naturally we thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if we attempted to sell vintage clothing ourselves! Where people can find you and your works? On my FLICKR and on my TUMBLR. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? What do you hope people will get out of viewing your photography? WWW.FLICKR.COM/AMANDAPULLEY

************ A TALK WITH… RHIANNON ADAM from TWTGE the polaroid issue, June 2011 Rhiannon Adam is a young talented photographer from London, who loves and lives in analogic era. A wild girl, grew up in Ireland and on the ocean with her family. Her way of taking Polaroids is simple but full of detail, in a world where nature dominates man. Besides his photography Rhiannon is an intelligent girl, full and adult, who like to talk about herself, and as she says, analogue photography is her religion. Hi Rhiannon, please introduce yourself. Hi, I’m Rhiannon – former boat kid, Michael Jackson fan, and Polaroid photographer. I live and work in East London, and analogue photography is my religion. What is your relationship with nature?

Much of my work takes its influence from nature – obviously living in London is about as far away from nature as you can get, but it does make you

appreciate it more. I grew up amidst a lot of open space. Firstly, in Ireland, we lived in the middle of the Cork countryside, and later on the boat we travelled across vast oceans, without seeing another human being for weeks at a time. In my work I try to regain that intimacy with emptiness. We are so small and insignificant, and my photographs focus on the peculiar habits of humans in nature, and the power nature has. Hence my fascination with tiny figures in large open spaces… Taking a Polaroid of an open space allows me to take a part of that emptiness with me wherever I go. I need that in the city. What is wild

for you?

The crashing waves at the foot of a cliff, and a solitary lighthouse perched on the edge of everything. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Depressing. I think the way that technology is going will mean that there will be less ‘shared experience’. Look at music, we have more and more choice, but yet we stick to things we know. There is less chance for us to discover something completely different. Websites know our buying patterns, and recommend things you will like. The same with books – Amazon tells you what it thinks you will like and no longer do you browse in a bookshop and pick something up that you have never heard of, or know nothing about. The world is becoming less and less ‘physical’. We buy digital files – photographs are too often digital files, made of 0s and 1s. So are music tracks, and books for your kindle, and films to download. Where is the smell of a new book, or the feel of a CD booklet in your hands. The joy of the tangible is slowly being eroded and we rely more and more on computers. These days we don’t even interact with people who are right in front of us- we are too busy tweeting, or looking at Facebook. Human interaction has gone digital. I hope in 20 years there will be a revolution, and people will learn to appreciate the joy of the handmade, the unique, the fun of rifling through a record shop, or book shop and picking things for themselves. I hope the smart technology that currently dictates so much of our lives will fade… but I think that may be wishful thinking. What is Photography? Many will argue with me, but I think photography is the process of freezing a moment in time as it was, objectively. It is a snippet of truth. This is why I am anti-PhotoShop. PhotoShop creates and encourages lies. The other day I was having a conversation with a friend who told me that when advertising her events online, she sometimes changes the facial expression of people at previous events to make them look like they are having a better time than they actually were. To me, this is an insult to the idea of photography itself. We use photographs on websites and in adverts because we believe that a photograph adds credence. If photography itself is a lie, then why don’t we just draw pictures, or paint an ideal truth? Polaroid is my way around thiseveryone knows what it stands for, everyone knows that you can’t edit a picture afterwords – to most people a Polaroid is still a piece of truth.

How did you get into photography? It’s funny, but for many years of my life I have no photographic evidence. Even with all the traveling we did as a family sailing around the world, it was everyday to us. It wasn’t special, and we didn’t have a lot of money, so we didn’t really take any pictures. we don’t even have one good photograph of our boat after all the years we lived on it! When I left my parents and moved to England to live with my aunt, I really began thinking about the lack of photos I had, and that is when I started to be interested in it. I invested in a good 35mm Canon with a 38-300mm lens aged 13, and I started taking pictures of my Dad whenever I got to see him, which was rare. I began obsessively recording everything to make up for the years of memories that I felt I was missing. Later, at Francis Holland School, I began developing my own black and white pictures, and started experimenting with various darkroom techniques. After several years I was given the darkroom key- a badge of honour – and ran a photography society. My addiction developed from there…. How did your passion for Polaroid begin? Again, it all happened while I was still at school. At 15 I did work experience in a large television department, and I became very good friends with a director there. As a parting gift at the end of my time, he gave me a Polaroid camera and as much free film as I wanted. They had a continuity cupboard and used to use Polaroid to take shots before and after takes to make sure ties were in the same place, makeup was the same, etc. It was used as a professional tool, and I was lucky enough to get the film for free. That was all 600 film, but once i was hooked I went on Ebay and snapped up as many different cameras and film types as I could find! I love Polaroids because they can never be recreated. Each one is a one-off, like a painting. A Polaroid image really does, to use their naff slogan- ‘capture the moment’. There is no processing, no one else is involved in its production. It’s only the photographer who decides what is in shot- there is no editing, no post-production. It is what it is. I think it’s the test of a good eye. If you can shoot an image ‘raw’ without relying on special effects, and if your composition works, then you can photograph anything. Each one is expensive, so you are forced to choose your subject. These special remits of Polaroid have being thrown by the wayside since the advent of Photoshop and the ubiquity of digital. When I look at a Polaroid I can tell whether it was shot on a hot day, a cold day, and whether it was windy. A Polaroid is a product of the time it was taken. The image the picture conjures is not limited to the scene visible in the photograph itself. A Polaroid is an experience. If you’re really lucky there’ll be a smear in the corner, or a dirty fingerprint. How do you have taken

the end of Polaroid Instant Film production?

It was like my life was over. My passion killed. It was like being a junkie who wasn’t allowed access to their drug of choice! I had no idea what I was going to do next, and felt like the whole focus of my creative energies had been pulled out from underneath me. I turned quickly to Ebay, and realised that life was going to get much more expensive to fund the habit! I couldn’t believe how it was the consumer digital camera that really killed Polaroid, essentially, 1 and 2MP cameras that killed off 60 years of innovation. It seemed like such a waste.

You’re part of the artists of The Impossible Collection, how was this collaboration born? Back in 2005 I joined an online community of Polaroid fanatics,HTTP:// WWW.POLANOID.NET as “rodeo”. Little did I know that the owners of the site would later become The Impossible Project. Because I have been a very active member almost since the start of the site, The Impossible Project / Polanoid guys saw a lot of my work, and liked what they saw, so I suppose that’s why I was asked to do it! It was very exciting testing those first films… What do you think of Impossible films? Hit and miss. I shoot a lot outside, so the films aren’t the best for the type of work I do because of their sensitivity to light… and also, part of the reason I love instant photography is because you create a souvenir of a place as much as you are taking a photograph, and as yet these new films do not age very well, and decay…I need a film that will stay as fresh as the day it was shot. Slowly the film is getting there, and it is improving all the time. Unlike Polaroid, who had 60 years to perfect their craft, The Impossible Project had a year to create their first film. So much respect to them for getting anything out at all! Which do you prefer? I still prefer original Polaroid films, there is nothing like the clarity and colour of SX-70 film. There will come a time when I don’t have a choice though. Each month that passes means the old Polaroid film is one month closer to being too old to use. Shooting now is very different to shooting when the film was in-date, I need to adapt my style continuously. I suppose it keeps me on my toes, and keeps things exciting. The reason I still like original Polaroid though is mostly due to the ease of use. When the new film is easier to handle, I am sure I will cross over. Tell me 3 reasons for possess a Polaroid. Only three? Gosh, where do I start? A Polaroid allows you to take a souvenir of the place that you are standing in, and it absorbs part of the ‘essence’ of that place. If you are by the sea, the salty sea air somehow attaches itself to the surface of the picture. Each one is attached to the place where it was born, so it is more than just a picture, it captures traces of the place that aren’t just photographic. It may be a fingerprint, a grain of sand, a scratch. It’s more than just a photograph. No more printing your images – it is the finished product! No more shouting at photo-labs, no running out of printer ink! No hard drive crashes and you lose everything! Use a Polaroid to teach yourself about cropping and framing – there are no second chances. No possibility to edit. Each pack contains ten shots (or 8 if it’s Impossible film) so you have to edit yourself. It helps you to create a stronger photographic identity and style without thinking about post-processing, or complicated settings. It’s a very pure way of shooting that will help in every other creative aspect of your life. Also, everyone should try it once- get it before it’s too lts too late. We need as many people to buy film as we can get, else it will die and be just a memory of a romantic time when photographs weren’t made of pixels. Sorry, maybe that’s 4 reasons…! Basically – why wouldn’t you?

I love your project “THE WRESTLER”, who’s the wrestler, and how this project born? I found a wrestling mask on London’s Brick Lane and loved it. It started out as a joke. I did a project at art school many years ago about reinventing objects. I “reinvented” a fork, giving it a life – I made an animation, and I placed an advert in Time Out magazine for a knife to share its life with and used the voices from the prospective dates for my animated film. This project, mixed up with a bit of Amelie and her gnomes somehow seemed to fit with the wrestler. We travel a lot and it was a way of tying up all of our travels with a narrative about a wrestler looking for love. In some ways it is autobiographical, as I arrived in the UK lonely, and anonymous, and ‘the lone wrestler’ is a kind of older version of how I felt back then… As for who the wrestler is, that would be telling. Get in touch with him/her to suggest the next place to visit on his/her quest for love and you may get a clue! Where do you get inspiration? My pictures are “found” pictures – I find moments, I find places. I try to avoid the set up, and tend to find inspiration from the world around me as it stands. Not the extraordinary, but the ordinary – the patterns in everyday life. I also take inspiration from biographical details of my life, hence the strong connection to solitude and the sea… I particularly love derelict places, and spaces that contain human traces. I like nature when it is vast, and it makes us look like tiny ants. All my work is really about desolation, about emptiness and nostalgia. Amanda Pulley in our last interview wants to know what do you hope people will get out of viewing your photography? A connection with a universal past. I suppose I want my images to suggest a time when life was less complicated, a feeling of peace, pensiveness. Who are your favourite photographers? Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Elizabeth Heyert, Gursky, Edward Burtysky, Sarah Moon and Sally Mann. There are too many to mention really! I like people who think before they shoot. What kind of camera do you use? Many! I’m not limited to a single camera, though in my heart a folding SX70 camera is the very essence of Polaroid. I love my TOYO 4×5, my 600SE, my SLR680 and my 180 or 195. But the square format integral and those bluey greens of SX-70 will always be my true love. Shooting in Polaroid, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bringing it back?

Without digital, Polaroid wouldn’t have died. Digital photography is killing Polaroid, and even though there are apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, the peope that use them don’t go and buy the film afterwards. The people that use those apps don’t necessarily appreciate real Polaroid, they like the idea of being to seamlessly load their images onto Facebook and the like.

It’s a different thing. It’s just a way of making bad photos look better by applying an algorithm to them. The internet, however, which I think also counts as “digital technology” does help the cause. I remember when Polaroid was on its way out petitions flew around the internet trying to save it – I’m sure the number of signatures helped The Impossible Project secure funding proving there was still interest. Without Polanoid, and Ebay my passion may have died, and I wouldn’t have film to shoot. So there are good elements to the digital world as well as bad ones! Do you have some project in progress? Always! I am working on a series of books, and an exhibition that will take place on Redchurch St in June/July. I also have a series called ‘Pavement People’ which is about tourists who visit amazing places, without really visiting them – i.e. people on coach tours, and organized trips, who don’t like to be outside of their comfort zone. Where people can find you and your works? My website(s), WWW.RHIANNONADAM.COM, POLANOID (rodeo), and FLICKR. I also exhibit where I can, usually in London as that’s where I live! What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? What is your opinion on digital manipulation? Do you think it adds to photography, or distracts from what photography is really about? Have you ever owned a Polaroid camera and what do you think of it? WWW.RHIANNONADAM.COM

************ POLAROIDERS, THE NETWORK OF ITALIAN ARTISTS from TWTGE the polaroid issue, June 2011 Polaroiders is an Italian social network born in June 2010 for all the fans and nostalgics of Polaroid. From the beginning they have great success and they’re immediately struggle in this year with four books (Vintage is Vintage, Polaroiders Anno Zero, BO50, Nanowriters meet Polaroiders), exhibitions, workshops and a lot of collaborations in Italy and abroad, including Impossible. We talk about it with Carmen Palermo and Alan Marcheselli, the founders. Hi Carmen, Hello Alan. Please introduce yourself. Alan: Hi I’m Alan Marcheselli, co-founder of Polaroiders.it. Carmen: Hi! I’m Carmen, the other co-founder. When and how was polaroiders.it born? A: Polaroiders was born the 21st of June 2010 by our experience in others photograper groups, there where a lot of Social network dedicate to 23

Photography but no one was fitting our idea, so we were speaking via Skype and I propose Carmen to create a Social network dedicated to our love, the instant Photography and in our will we try to create a home for old and new generation of Italian Instant photographers and artists. When did you purchased/received your first polaroid? A: I buy my first Polaroid when I was 19 and it was a SPIRIT 600 CL. C: My first polaroid was a Polaroid 1000 Red Button: my father bought it when I was born and last year I decided to “exhume” it. What were you doing at the end of Polaroid Instant Film production? A: My father showed me the news on the newspaper and than I ran on the web to know more about it; it was a real hearthake! After that I called all the shops I knew and I began collecting all of the 600 film packs I could. (I used the last pack few days ago). C: I heard about that news from the web, but at that time I didn’t use polaroid yet. I realized what that news was meaning last year when I decided to use my father’s polaroid. And at the news of Impossible Project, How did you react? A: I must say I was really sceptic, I already knew that the original polaroid receipt was lost and the Impossible project at the beginning of its life seems to me a really IMPOSSIBLE project, but I began to follow them. C: In this case I had different points of view: I never used a polaroid before last year and when I decided to start making polaroid the polaroid film stocks were finishing, The Impossible Project really gave me the dream of instant photography. What do you think of their films? After the initial problems, have they improved a lot or do they have to work up a bit more? A: The first PX100FF was quite a surprise, it didn’t fit any of my expectation. It was a very particular film with some problem to solve, but let me say that I began falling in love with this new istant era, it was such a new discovery every day and it was easy to feel part of the process. Following up the question, yes, they have improved a lot, and yes they still have to work up. The road towards perfection is long, but they are running and we are having fun. C: The PX100FF was really hard to use but the film gave its own effects that sometimes, now, we’re looking for and we can’t have anymore. Sure they improved a lot in this year and surely they have to work. It is thrilling looking at their improvements and trying new films with new behavior and effects. Usually in my interviews I ask what is photography. I’d like to ask to you, What is Polaroid?

A: Someone sing, someone write, a lot spend the day in front of television

or lying on the sofa after their job; Polaroid or better Instant Photograpy is the way I choose to express myself. C: I agree with Alan, instant photography is the better way I have to communicate first of all with my inner self . Do you have some favourite Polaroiders in your community? A: Sure, a lot. C: Exactly! A lot! I’m fashinated by the ways each of them can model differently the same film and how they communicate different feelings. Some anticipation, future projects on polaroiders.it? A: We are planning for the nearest future a trip in Austria to go visiting all together the Polaroid Exhibition in Wien, in the meantime, with the support of the Impossible shop Wien, we will organize a workshop about the new PX680. And for the most far future, we are now having some contact to organize in 2012 the Italian Instant Festival, 30 days dedicated to the instant photography. I leave to you the last question, a free space to say what do you want to say, something that I haven’t asked you, or to advertise. A: I thank you for this interview, and thanks to everyone who have taken the time to read it. Just last thing: instant photography is all new, we are all pioneer of a new analogic era, I think this is fantastic. C: I’d like to say thanks, sure at you and your readers, and especially to all members ofpolaroiders.it that help polaroiders.it to grow up every day more. WWW.POLAROIDERS.IT

************ A TALK WITH… KEVIN J HSIA from twtge.com, Summer 2011 Kevin J Hsia is a young photographer and student of English and Political Science from Chicago. Him way of shooting is very emotional and from his picture you can see all the magic of film. Bright colors, lightleaks and softness. He pass from a lot of style but staying in a personal one. Kevin is a great and deep photographer who can shot so close. You’ll hear a lot about him. Hi Kevin, please introduce yourself. Hello! I’m a recently turned 22(this past July!) year-old English and Political Science student. I enjoy vintage, analog, and manual film photography. I recently decided to become a freelancer based in Chicago and the West Suburbs of Illinois, and am very open to most any visual work. 25

I love jazz, disco and house music and will try to DJ as often as I can to push the future-vintage sound! What is your relationship with nature? A highly reverent and very open one. I love camping and going on roadtrips; fully exploring the US is one of my goals. I like to howl on night bike rides and really enjoy the disconnect from daily comforts and the banalities of technology. What is “wild” for you? Recollecting Rousseau’s “noble savage”, Thoreau’s saying that “all good things are wild and free”, and the general sentiment of the Romantics, I can say that wild is an idea, or at most, a vestigial concept that is constantly in tension with modern modes of decorum and expectations. For me, to be wild is to fully embrace the primal virtues in us. It is being unafraid of doing things that are unknown, and subjectively justifying an existence without too much influence ofoutside thinking. 20 years from now, what do you think the World will look like? Can’t say for sure, but hopefully as the human race advances, we don’t lose touch with ourselves. The second issue of TWTGE will be released soon, this time dedicated to thehome.We will discuss the nature at home and the home in nature, and how we take refuge in these parallel worlds. Which/what is/are your refuge? I suppose my home has been in the realm of nostalgia and the classics. Not that I’m trying to escape modernity, but I do believe that simpler times led people to really understand what they truly enjoyed. I am not hiding in a fantasy either, for I believe that happiness is evident in the refuge of daily living. The simple interactions with people, things, and random occurrences are what counts. What is Photography to you? It is a lifestyle – not merely as a means of being “trendy” or simply to be “different”, but having fresh experience based uponbeing an impressionable, creative naïf. It’s understanding the world around you and appreciating a life that can be worth living. How did you get into photography?

I originally thought about purchasing a digital SLR and after several weeks of research and indecision, I found my dad’s Nikon F-301. From there, I gained a new appreciation in the old photography books that I came across. It’s funny how items in passing that never had much significance become treasures later. At home, I read through TIME’s “30 Years of History Making Photos” and then devoured a discarded textbook found in a recycling bin back in my highschool five years ago. I guess I kind of gradually immersed myself into it.

Your works range in many types of photography, recently much more in fashion… why this choice? Do you like to experiment? or did you find your kind of photography? At this point I’m not set in any particular type of photography. Perhaps I’m experimenting, but I try not to dictate my work by a style or theme. More than anything, every time I take photos, I let my present circumstances lead. I’m more apt to use the environment and available light that I come across. Portraiture comes to be far more interesting then as I kind of wander through new environments and incorporate it into the workflow. One day I may have a particular preferencein shooting, but for now I try to clear my mind of any outside influence and simply take photos I like. Where do you get inspiration? My surroundings – people, places, things.Careful and quiet studies of life that may otherwise be passed over by the careless eye. I like good design, so things like old vinyl sleeves and book covers offer a lot. The internet is also fantastic for all kinds of late night stumblings. What kind of camera do you use? I prefer fully manual cameras that allow me control of what I’m creating behind the lens. At the moment, I bounce around cameras, and will readily use any finds that I may come across. You use film – do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bringing it back? I believe digital technology can both be praised and criticized. As always, there are the people that effectively use computer and digital technology in creating film-like worlds. They do it well and in good taste. These individuals have carefully studied what film aberrations and tonal shifts can look like and freely recreate them to their taste. I also have seen many that take clichéd elements and simply bastardize the medium.Seemingly taking nods from collage work and cut-and-paste artists, some of the juxtapositions and photoshop renderings of space galaxies, stars, or mysticism (triangles) are laughable. They are digital art projects that don’t really benefit the film community. In my opinion, these are gimmicky. If digital users plan on mimicking the look of film, it’s probably good that they master actual film first before creating digital versions. Creating “nostalgia” is knowing about the past as well as having a yearning for those times in the present. Do you have some favourite film? Fuji and Kodak brands are mymainsqueezes. What do you love about analogic photography ?and of digital? I love the process of analogic photography. I can take my time and really plan the shot out. Film gives me limited exposures to work with on every roll and will always challenges me to take the best photos possible. Digital gives one the utility of producing many shots, narrowing the gap between moments. Often, clarity is guaranteed, and there is the comfort

of not missing any “good” moments through the sheer number of shots. For me, the downside (that I think film satisfies) is the want to save every image taken. If enough consecutive are taken of a moment, every photo seems to be the best. It would be a never ending decision for me. Rhiannon Adam in our last interview wants to know what your opinion is on digital manipulation. Do you think it adds to photography or distracts from what photography is really about? Have you ever owned a Polaroid camera and what do you think of it? In referring to my above reply, digital manipulation with software in any form is essentially a tool that artists must consciously choose to use. Thus, digital technology shouldn’t be demonized, but rather, it is the artists’ decision in good or bad taste that must be critiqued. I personally will try to stay away from heavy edits. A good way to think about photography is that the photos or pictures one takes will generally only be as good as the moment of its first creation. Everything else will just try to enhance or distract from that truth or vision. Yes, my dad has these two polaroids that are decent at what they do. Before I get around to using more of them, I need to find better ways of getting cheaper film. Where can people find you and your works? On MY PORTFOLIO of select works, my FLICKR has the most up-to-date work. I revived MY TUMBLR this Summer to keep track of my photos that blogs have been so graciously disseminating. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Are you a self-proclaimed “photographer”? If so, why choose a world of re-presenting visuals? Why do you use the specific medium that you use? How do you incorporate photography into your life or career? Where do you see or hope to see yourself with photography in the future? WWW.FLICKR.COM/ARTISTFRIENDSHIP

************ A TALK WITH… MARIAM SITCHINAVA from twtge.com, September 2011 Mariam Sitchinava is a wonderful Georgian photographer. Through this interview I understand that She don’t like so much to talks of them self, she prefer talks through is camera and Mariam do it very well! Her photos are so soft like the girls she catch with her film cameras, in a perfect relationship with nature. Recently has also released her first photography book “Deep Moods”, that I recommend you to buy. Hi Mariam, please introduce yourself. I’m 22 year old, Tbilisi based photographer. What is your relationship with nature? 28

My love with nature is depicted on my photos, I can’t explain.

20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? It will be overelectrified. What is Photography? The way to express your feelings. How did you get into photography? All of a sudden about half and a year ago, I’ve recieved film camera as a gift and then started everything. And into the world of fashion photography? Simply, they all contacted me via internet- email. How your project born? It can take hours of thinking about future projects, but sometimes they are born in a minute. The wonderful

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Most of them are my friends. Where did you get inspiration? Everywhere! Who are your favourite photographers? Ellen Von Unwerth. What kind of camera do you use? Film. You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? Yes, digital is killing it because everyone is buying digital camera and it’s getting more and more difficult and expensive to get rolls of film. How is your relationship with the camera? I don’t want to be in front of the camera, I’m very comfortable behind it. Kevin J Hsia in our last interview gives us a lot of questions for you, he wants to know if are you a self-proclaimed “photographer”? If so, why choose a world of re-presenting visuals? Why do you use the specific medium that you use? How do you incorporate photography into your life or career? Where do you see or hope to see yourself with photography in the future? I’m self taught photographer, I haven’t passed any of the photography courses. I don’t know why I have chosen it, it came by it’s way. It’s more

closer to me than any other visuals or nonvisual. Photography is my main job and its one of the important thing in my life. I hope to see myself more and more developed! Recently came out your book “Deep Moods”, do you want to talk about it and tell to people where they can buy it? It’s limited edition book with 100 copies. contains 72 page. There are 2010/11 photos of mine. Everyone can buy it through my etsy shop. What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude? Good critic is always good. Where people can find you and your works? My personal site and Facebook. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Why does she usually uses only one girl model? Why does she choose shoot nude other than anything? WWW.MARIAM.GE

************ GIRLS ON FILM From TWTGE the home issue, October 2011 Eight months ago came out the first number of an online magazine called Girls on Film, it was immediately success. Today Girls on Film is at the 7thnumbers and it collects a group of young talented photographers who shoot beautiful girls and boys [in the two # Boys on Film] with their film cameras. A joy that unites the love of TWTGE for girls, nature and film. We talk about it and we know it better with Igor Termenón, creator and editor of this magazine. Hi Igor. Please introduce yourself. Hi Lu. I’m a 26-year-old Spanish photographer. I still find it weird calling myself photographer but I guess I can do it after three years haha. I’m also an industrial engineer and just finished a master degree in product design & management. I’ve been living in Liverpool during this last year but I’m moving to Edinburgh in around two weeks, so fingers crossed and let’s see what happens! What is Girls on Film? I define Girls on Film as an online photography zine. It’s a publication that features girl portraits shot by emerging photographers using analog cameras. I also like to think of the idea of Girls on Film as a collective where artists show their work and try to preserve the use of film photography. 30

Do you inspired by Duran Duran’s song “Girls on film”? Definitely, I love 80s new wave bands and love that song so the idea of calling it like that had been in my mind for a while. When and how was Girls On Film born? It was born last February when I finished my first semester exams, I had the idea of creating a photography zine but at the beginning it was only gonna be a single issue showing some of the girls I had shot. Then I gave it a second thought and considered including the work of more photographers, had worked with several film photographers before on a zine called Volzsk, so sent some e-mails and at the end had more material than what I had expected. How often “Girls on Film” comes out? It’s a monthly publication, I have to apologize about the delay of the September issue but have been extremely busy finishing my master degree. How do you select the artist? I come across a lot of photographers on Facebook or Flickr, a lot of people send their submissions as well. All the photographs in Girls on Film are portraits, so when selecting a photo I taken into account the quality of the work as well as the person in it. Coming from a fashion photography background I always believed that when taking portraits most of the responsibility is on the model, and some can turn a normal photo into something amazing. In your magazine there are a lot of amazing photographer, some of my favourite like Lea Mandana, Mariam Sitchinava, Julie Lansom & more collaborate also with TWTGE. Do you have some favourite photographers, in particular, that participate in your magazine? I love all the photographers that have been featured in Girls on Film but have my own favourites. I think the work of Synchrodogs (Roman Noven & Tania Shcheglova) is unique and completely different to what is being done in contemporary photography. Alexander Alekseenko has collaborated with me in previous projects so I feel like I’ve known him for a while and really like how his work has evolved but always keeping its original simplicity. Sara Sani is amazing, love how close her portraits look. And finally got one of my favourite fashion photographers for Issue 05, Bradford Gregory. How people can participate in your magazine? There is a FLICKR GROUP but the best way is to send the work to GIRLSONFILMZINE@GMAIL.COM along with the name of the photographer, website and names of the girls. Your magazine is full of beautiful women, sometimes naked. What you think aboutthe criticism to the artistic nude and use of the women as an object? I think that photographing naked people has become a trend in contemporary photography that only some photographers can really do well or in an

interesting way. I can’t get tired of seing naked people in Ryan McGinley’s work for example but though I admire Terry Richardson’s early work , right now I don’t see anything new in his current work. I think that nudity becomes a problem when it is needed to make a photo look good, if they complement each other then there should be no problem about it. All the selected photos on Girls on Film in which women are naked have been chosen because there is something more in them apart from the nudity. Usually in my interviews I ask to photographers that use film if theythink that digital technology is destroying film or creating nostalgia and bring him back, what you think about it? I don’t think it is destroying film, in fact there is a growing number of photographers moving from digital to film. I think both are necessary, depending on their uses but of course I will always defend film photography, though I can’t lie and I still use digital for some things. Do you will ever make a print version? I’ve always had the idea in mind, now that I will probably have some free time really want to study the different options and being able of offering a print version in the future. Some anticipation, future projects? I want to do a personal printed zine (photocopy quality haha) called “I used to live here”, the idea came from one of my albums in my CARGO COLLECTIVE site with the same name. In the past three years I’ve lived in four different places and now I’m moving somewhere else so thought it would be interesting documenting it in a zine. Maybe a stupid question but, why you made also boys on film? A request by the girls? Or the boys? When I did the first issue of Girls on Film I thought about it but at the same time I knew it was not feasible to do alternate issues as it is more difficult to get boys portraits, that’s why I decided to do 2 Girls and 1 Boys and so on. The first two Boys on Film have had quite a lot of success, I think boys even liked them more than girls haha. A last question, what is Photography? For me it is a diary, I always define it that way. I’m really lazy at writting and sometimes I don’t even want to write about events in my life so taking a photo is the best way to document them and collect some memories. WWW.GIRLSONFILMZINE.CO.UK

************ A TALK WITH… RITA LINO From TWTGE the home issue, October 2011 Rita Lino is a prodigious photographer and video maker from Portugal. 32

Direct, maybe harsh, crude but simple and sincere. In her photos you can see her love for Nan Goldin and Francesca Woodman but remaining in her own personal style. Rita is pure feelings, can make you cry, laugh and thrill those who deeply admires her photos and videos, not to be missed. Hi Rita, please introduce yourself. Hello my name is Rita Lino. I’m Portuguese and I live in Oporto. I’m a distant traveller. A widowed Serbian. A hooker. Sometimes a blasphemous witch, other a self-absorbed female blogger. What is your relationship with nature? Nature… It’s part of me. This number is dedicated to the nature at home, many of your photos are shooted in a house,so what is your relationship with home? I have many homes and rooms. In the last 6 years I have about 8 different rooms. I never get to create a story or a deep relationship with this homes. I just need register all beds where I slept, all the walls. What is wild for you? Smell Rita Lino. What is your Refuge? Afternoons. The only way I can keep my armour on is to take my clothes off. Nature at home or Home in nature? The two… 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? The same world but with people more dirty inside. What is Photography? For me? is the way I have to scream with people: look at me, hug me, fuck me and leave me alone. How did you get into photography? I really don’t know. I think because my father, cause he have a lot of cameras and always I felt curious for photography. Where did you get inspiration? Everything around me but particularly in my feelings, in my dramas and in my sexuality. “I

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want to show what you are, what it would be in this picture? I’m a heartbroken, who do you want me to be? and more importantly: can you afford it? The feelings in your photos are very important, and you can make them hear from those who look at, which message do you prefer to send? Hummmm any message. It’s just feelings, It’s just self-love. It’s disgusting I know… but it’s the true. It’s just like a daily, and have attention problems, I think. Who are your favourite photographers? Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Francesca Woodman, Miranda July, Miguel Figueroa… etc etc…I have a lot of favourite, but in these ones I identify very much. What kind of camera do you use? Nikon FM2, Yashica FX, Polaroid 230 and I use a lot of disposable cameras. You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? No, I use film because it’s a esthetics preference. I don’t hate digital technology, I really like it but not for my personal work. I use digital technology for other things… but yes, I use the film cause the film brings me the nostalgia, the drama I like. Mariam Sitchinava in our last interview wants to know why do you usually use only one girl model? and why do you choose to shoot nude other than anything? Well, in my editorial work usually I don’t use one girl model in my photos, I use 2 or 3 girls but yes in my personal work I use only one girl model, me, cause my work is about my feelings and my life. I don’t prefer nude style or nude shooting, I hate this kind of concepts I just take picture for see something more than clothes, like all the clothes are very “temporal” and very semiotic, and distract the viewer’s attention, I just want to capture the people, the feeling, you know? For me the clothes are very important things for editorial shoots not for my personal work, just these. How is your relationship with the camera? My camera is my lover, I make love with my camera all the time. What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude? I just don’t think about this, artistic nude it’s ok, the artistic landscape it’s ok and all things artistic are. I love so much also your video, they are so dreamy, intense and so deep, my favourite is “she’s alive on that machine” with this Super8 look like 34

effect, soft color and shot out focus, without forgetting the choice of music, how they born? They born from the spontaneity of a summer afternoon in Barcelona, I took off my underwear and started filming, this video it’s very important to me, it was done with all my heart. And do you create first a passion for video or photography? Photography, the video came after like 4 years later. I like also your collaboration with David Fonseca for the video of “stop 4 a minute”, how this collaboration born? Ahahahahah this work runs a little bit of what I do, David send me an e-mail with this project and I accepted, this is it. Do you have some project in progress? All my life is a work in progress, so yes. Where people can find you and your works? My PERSONAL WORK, my EDITORIAL WORK, MY FLICKR and finaly I have a TUMBLR, where I put in things I like. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? No, it’s perfect, I’m sorry for my reply so honest and direct. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? What’s your favorite food? WWW.RITALINO.COM

************ VIA MONTE NEVOSO, 8 From TWTGE the home issue, October 2011 Via Monte Nevoso 8 is a photographic project about the rhythm of the seasons through the personal look of Elena Vaninetti. Elena brings you into her house, to her window and lets you see her world and her life go season after season. The houses that surround her, the clothes hanging out and everyday objects give details that take you into the pictures, making feel the heat, the cold and her feelings. The whole with the magic of a Polaroid, camera used by Elena for other personal and group projects, like Four Lines. Hi Elena, please introduce yourself. I’m 26 years old, I live between Milano and my home town near Bergamo; I work as photographer. 35

How do your project “via monte nevoso 8” born? The project was born about 2 years ago, but I seriously began to collect material the last year. I live in this apartment with a person I loved for 3 years, and I still love him very much even though our relationship has changed over time. In consequence of it, I loved and I love this house so much. I found myself staring out the same window all days, watching the seasons pass; without thinking, I began to photograph the same view but with different colors and moods. Looking back at those photos and combining them with other impromptu everyday domestic scenes, this project took life.I hope that everyone can see and feel the love that is behind this project, as I see it. It’s your home? Yes it is. It is the first place after long time I have been able to call home. What is your relationship with home? At the moment it is difficult, I’m kind of homeless. I must leave soon this place and I don’t know where home will be. Surely my real home is where I grew up, where there are people who love me and waiting for me with open arms. And with nature? I grow up in a beautiful place, a little town on a lake, so nature is really important to me. Living in Milano I miss a lot the real contact with nature. Usually there are people or yourself portrayed in your photos, why this choice to exclude human in this project? This project is all about objects and domestic scenes, the human presence is in every single shoot, maybe hidden but perceptible. Which camera do you use for this project? A polaroid ee100. Why the choice of shooting in Polaroid? Because it’s an instant camera, always ready, and this project is made of instant moments. Do you have some other projects in progress? Not at the moment. I have some ideas for the future. Do you want to say something that I didn’t ask you?

Yes, this project is dedicate to my flatmate. A very special person, who has always encouraged and supported me.

A last question, What is photography? It’s the best way for express myself. WWW.ELENAVANINETTI.COM

************ A TALK WITH… MICHAL PUDELKA from twtge.com, November 2011 Michal Pudelka is a young artist from Slovakia. His world of sirens, wild creatures, innocent schoolgirls and androgenic figures, so sofisticated and fascinating, distinguish Michal personal works. His beautiful models, take to nature, are in a scenario of classic fashion, another passion that we can see in his photography. Without forget Michal’s videos, personal and deep, very full of conceptual meaning.

Hi Michal, please introduce yourself. My name is Michal Pudelka, I was born 21 years ago in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. I consider my self as a visual artist. What is your relationship with nature? Nature is really important for me. In Slovakia we have a very beautiful countryside so it is quite easy to love it. For me nature is the biggest piece of art, the last true thing. What unite fashion and nature? I think that nature and fashion are very opposite, that’s the beauty of mixing nature and fashion, it makes strong contrast. What is wild

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You don’t really wanna know. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? In my opinion, we have already done a lot of damage here, so it will probably look like as it is today, only more dirty. What is Photography? Photography is a painting with light. How did you get into photography? I started to study at the art school and in my foundation year I needed to buy a camera to capture all my projects. Soon I felt in love with it and than all began. And into the world of fashion photography? Fashion photography was just a question of a time for me, because I was

already in love with fashion. I wanted to be a fashion designer before. The wonderful models in your photos are friends or professionals model? I started with shooting friends than models. There are also many models that became my friends. Where do you get inspiration? Simply everywhere, life is full of inspiration, you just need to look carefully. Who are your favorite photographers? There are many wonderful young photographers. It wouldn’t be fair to say just a few. What kind of camera do you use? I have many old analog cameras, my favorites are throw away cameras. Its not important what camera you use, it is about how you use it. Using film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I don’t like digital technology very much, for me it takes out all the magic from the pictures. I think that film will always have its fans and won’t disappear. Do you have some favorite film? I love Kodak films. What do you love about analog photography? And of digital? I adore everything about analog photography. There is nothing special about digital for me. What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude? Personally I think that there is nothing bad about artistic nude, but I also think that there are cleverer ways of expression. I don’t have a problem with any criticism, there are millions of people and we can’t all have the same taste. I really love your conceptual works especially in your videos, my favorite is “INSIDE THE OUTSIDE ROOM, PT. B”, this girl looks floating in blue water seems like she lost herself, it’s so beautiful, how it was born? Inside the outside room pt.B is a part of the series of six videos, all starring my best friend and shoots producer Katarina Gyu.

It was born as a reflection of what we felt in that time. Inside the outside room pt.A and pt.B are dealing with the fact of locked freedom, of abil ity to feel safer inside than out.

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what’s your favorite food?

My favorite food is sushi. Where people can find you and your works? You can find my work on my TUMBLR and FLICKR, soon there will be my official website, I just don’t have a time to finish it. To find me in person you should come to Slovakia or to Brno, Czech Republic where I’m living at the moment. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Nope. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? What color of gummy bear is your favorite? WWW.MICHALPUDELKA.COM

************ ARIANNA LERUSSI from Kuusi #1, February 2012 Arianna Lerussi is an amazing photographer, poet and writer from Italy. In her work you can feel all her passion, love, melancholy & strength. Arianna photographs and write so softly bringing you into a dreamlike journey full of memories and personal moments . You can see her beautiful photos and poems on her personal siteHTTP://WWW.ARIANNALERUSSI.COM. Arianna has also recently published her first collection of poems “Si dice amore non si sa perché si dice” for now avaible in italian. What is nature? About Nature, I love the contrasting aspects: it is sunny, pictorial but also dark, obscure. I love clouds chasing each other, also when they become stormy, I love the plaintive beauty of flowers ‘cause I know that they die. When I was a child my favorite place was the garden. It had small secret places, behind the hedges, to hide so well. Somehow, the grass that touches the sky comforted me. And it still comforts me today. 39

Who is Arianna? Sono persa. Sono sparsa. Sono tanto tempo fa. “I’m lost. I’m spread. I’m some time ago.“ What is Photography? Photography was a way to indulge my inclination to nostalgia. Photographing for me doesn’t mean just stopping a moment but being part of it, totally, almost living it more. In the same way photographing someone means digging deeply into his essence, being in contact with his real part; then photographing themselves answers to the need to look us in another way, to identifyourselves finally. I would say that photography is a way to enliven life. WWW.ARIANNALERUSSI.COM

************ THE TREND REINVENTED from TWTGE the fashion issue, April 2012 The Trend Reinvented is a beautiful fashion blog made by two young photographers from Portugal, Sara Rios and Pedro Magalhães that define their site “a blog about style, far from the common stereotype blog”. In fact The Trend Reinvented is a perfect mix of their passions: fashion, art and photography; and they are expert in doing this. Hi Sara, Hello Pedro. Please introduce yourself. Sara: My name is Sara Rios, a typical Portuguese girl. I like the sea, cats and the simplicity of moments. Pedro: My name is Pedro Magalhães, I´m 25 years old. I love the sea and fishing in it. What is The Trend Reinvented? The Trend Reinvented is the name of our project created in 2011. First we made a blog where we posted a bit of our daily lifestyle and our most recent publications. Then we decided to form a website where we add a more organized collection of pictures. Recently we tried to interact with some magazines but we also have had some positive feedback as well, and that makes us proud enough to keep on. Our thing is daily based spontaneity… but we also don’t discard premeditated madness, that we snap immediately. We have a diverse inspiration and you can understand it easily if you smell and listen to our clicks! When and how was The Trend Reinvented born? The trend reinvented has Portuguese nationality and was digitally born in ‘11. Why is The Trend Reinvented “far from the common stereotype blog”? 40

It isn’t stereotypical because we, besides not following fashion, go with

the taste of the tide, of our tide. What is the tide? We rather answer that question. The tide is our state of spirit, all that we believe, mental floods and magic experiences! That will of making something more takes us, even on those boring days, to do productive work, a way that our path is photography and art in general, in a extractive and appreciative way too, on the most natural state. In your blog you differentited fashion, photography and art, three things the run on the same line, why this choice? What differentiates them for you? Those markers were made to give some dynamism to our blog and also to contextualize in a better fashion all the matters. Have you ever worked for a label? Not with a specific label. We usually work in association with some local clothing shops. They provide wardrobe and the brands vary. For which fashion label do you’d like to work? Any kind of work is welcome. Nevertheless, we rather work, for example, with Carhartt and Volcom. What is your relationship with nature? Pure love. We are completely in to it. It´s our source of inspiration. What connect fashion and nature for you? In our opinion, it doesn´t make sense those two words apart. Basically nature brings what is beautiful and fashionable. Search fashion in nature! What do you have to say to the beauty of a cheetah on grassland or to the colors of a butterfly? In what fashion inspired you? The style of each makes us grow the will of keeping the individual moments. We, mainly, choose the comfort of the person. What we really admire is those that can funnel to their day all the appearance and feelings that make us realize what is their style of life. What is Photography? Everything we want to make of it. How did you get into photography? We don´t really know. Think is something that was born with us and gained more and more roots. What kind of camera do you use? Holga 120 CFN, Konica T3, disposable camera, Nikon D90.

Usually in my interviews I ask to photographers that use film if they think that digital technology is destroying film or creating nostalgia and bring him back, what you think about it? We don’t think it was ruined: simply turned into fashion and there is a big amount of people that follow that same fashion. Normally, to finish a more specific work, we use it. Anyway, what we really like is the secrets that analogic has. But yes, it creates nostalgia. Some anticipation, future projects? That is a secret. Where people can find you and your works? On our BLOG, CARGOCOLLECTIVE and DEVIANTART. WWW.THETRENDREINVENTED.BLOGSPOT.IT

************ A TALK WITH… MATTHEW TAMMARO from TWTGE the fashion issue, April 2012 Robert Capa said “If your photographs are not good enough, you’re not close enough” and I think that Matthew Tammaro understand what Capa meant with this closeness. The relationship that Matthew has with people and nature, that is around him, it’s special and it’s showed in his photographs. Matthew is a concentrated of fashion, nature and beauty. His photography is relaxing, simple delicate and natural, yet powerfull, made of precious moments with beautiful and sofisticated models dipped into the beauty of nature. Hi Matthew, please introduce yourself. Matthew Tammaro. 25 years old from Toronto, Canada. What is your relationship with nature? I think that my relationship with nature is pretty important. Not in an overly political way, at least in my art, but it’s symbolism and aesthetic value is something that is very attractive to me. I mean it’s loaded with infinite possibilities. Maybe it’s a muse for me. It reacts to light and atmosphere, and it translates to everybody in its own way, so if anything, it is a great place to look for inspiration. What is wild for you? I don’t know if I’ve ever thought about this until now. Wild is freedom? No constraints? More sense-driven I think! 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Oh man, I don’t know. I think it’ll obviously be more high-tech, etc. but 42

I think mostly the pace of life will be much faster. Not insurmountable, but it’ll be mind-blowing compared to now. More people will be “connected”…I mean who knows?! There will still be untouched places, though–both physically and cerebrally. There will still be exploration and mystery. That’s pretty exciting, I think. What is Photography? Well obviously it’s something different to everyone. But I think that maybe it satiates our desire to be voyeurs. I mean that, whether it is completely sexualized, or whether it’s a medical document. We totally consume images and use them, and orchestrate our knowledge and desires with them. They’re very strong things! For me, I think they act as idealized memories or fantasies. Dream-states that are so fickle in real life. That’s why you want to have them, and look at them, because that moment or person or thing is gone faster than you could ever expect. How did you get into photography? It was always around my household because my father’s a cinematographer, and once I started painting more in highschool, it was a natural progression to try different mediums of art. I took pretty well to the whole process. It’s much different than painting–it’s a different way of seeing. But I like when aspects of painting are brought into photography–probably more so than when photography is brought into painting. Where did you get inspiration? Oh it changes all the time. It’s usually whatever is having a huge influence on my life at the current time. I like that a lot because it’s always changing and forcing you to see and experience new things. At the same time, it’s not always the most conducive thing. But it’s okay to sit back and rethink every now and then. Who are your favourite photographers? At the moment, Florian Maier-Aichen and Paolo Roversi. What kind of camera do you use? A lot haha. I have a variety of 35mm, medium, large format, polaroid, digital, iPhone… You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I use both film and digital. I think that accessibility to digital definitely has made a trend to use film, but I mean at the same time, it isn’t some huge deal I don’t think. For the most part, I think the good people using film are doing it for aesthetic reasons, but the same goes for digital. Just more options, right? Digital has definitely changed the demands of commercial photography (for better or worse, who knows, but it is what it is). But to answer your question, I don’t think film ever disappeared, so it can’t really be brought back. And I don’t think we see dramatically

more people shooting wet-plate…so no. But it has influenced the styles. Do you have some favourite film? Polaroid…any. How important is fashion for you? Considering it is the type of photography that I’m pursuing, it should be a lot more important to me, I think. I totally get it, and I like nice clothes, and see the art in it too. But for me, the design, the houses, all that, is not my passion. I think it’s the difference between a Bill Cunningham photo and a Paolo Roversi shot. Cunningham’s photos are about the clothes, strictly as a document–reportage.Where’s Roversi’s is light, model, beauty, etc. I relate more to the latter. What connect fashion and nature for you? Beauty. The models in your photos are friends or pro? Both. There’re so many different qualities you get from shooting a friend or a professional model. You dictate your shoots on that and what you want and are looking for. In your photos there are model of both sex, is it more easy to work with girls or boys? I generally work more with girls. That’s because I think it’s just more common for girls to be comfortable in front of a camera. But I would shoot anybody. It’s not so much about their sex as it is about their demeanour with you in the room pointing a lens at them. You can get awkward guys and girls. But sometimes you want that, right? What do you think of the criticism to the artistic nude? Hmmm…well stuff needs to be critiqued I think. It starts an interesting conversation. But if those nudes were never there, there would never be the conversation. Art criticism has its time and place, whether on nudes or otherwise. And then there’s art that is conceptualized to be critical. I don’t really know. I like to think of art as a bit of creative catharsis, and that you should really do what “feels” right to you. That’s where you’ll get the most interesting and uninhibited work. Once the work is produced, then critique. Ya, so I guess it works well. Both art and criticism a very serving to each other. Good, I think! I really love the idea of your blog 1/X an exchange of photographs with an other great photographer Chelsee Ivan, tell us about it.

Thanks! Chelsee and I stated talking in 2009 or 2010 over the internet because we really liked each other’s work and found that we were both in our final year at photo school, but at different ends of Canada (Chelsee in Calgary, me in Toronto). That synthesized a really great friendship. We would talk and share photo stuff and ideas, but we also came quite

familiar with our personal lives. We wanted a place where our diary photographs could go because we found that we were taking very similar shots, and that similar things were happening in each other’s lives, despite never having met each other and being in two completely different geographies. We really liked the idea of Ana Kras and Sylvain-Emmanuel’s blog PING-PONG, but wanted it to be much more thematic. Every time Chelsee posts an image I try to post something that I feel is similar to hers. That’s why we titled it 1/x — the reciprocal equation. And now, as of two days ago, Chelsee has moved to Toronto, so maybe you’ll be seeing us in a lot more of our photos on 1/x! Michael Pudelka in our last interview wants to know what color of gummy bear is your favorite? I actually really like shoving a whole handful in my mouth rather than eat them individually. I just noticed this the other day too. Where can people find you and your works? Well I am moving to the states shortly, and you can find my works on MY SITE, 1/X andMY FLICKR. I also have a photography show with Agnes Thor for the Contact Festival in Toronto during May at Forgetus Collective. It’s curated by Laid-Bare. I’ll have more up about that on my blog and you should definitely check out their blog because they are doing a lot of great things in Toronto and Montreal. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Ya! I am starting a travel/photography blog with my girlfriend that is going to be about swimming holes. The idea is to a shoot a roll a hole and have a little diary-esque write-up about it. We really want to go to a whole bunch all over Canada, America, Europe even…so if anybody is reading this and has a great one to share, please email me! What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Favourite food? WWW.MATTHEWTAMMARO.COM

************ PRAGUE IN LOW-FI from TWTGE the fashion issue, April 2012 Holga My Dear is Silvia Ianniciello, an Italian photographer who likes to play with cameras, it’s thanks to people like her that the world of photography grows more and more. After “Polaroid, a brief introduction” and “Impossible Emulsion” that she wrote for our first two numbers of TWTGE, we now know her well, she is a friend and, above all, we know her passion for toycameras, lomos and polaroids. This time Silvia tells us about her beautiful project Prague in Low-Fi through the wildness of plastic lens, and of her first time in the darkroom; hoping that one day she will explain better how it works. PRAGUE IN LOW-FI is a personal journey in the beautiful 45

east City, all done with low-fi cameras and film, precisely, all processed and printed homemade, in the teeth of those saying that for doing beautiful photos we necessitate an expansive equipament! Silvia shows us the real photography, and tells it through this project. Hi Silvia. Please introduce yourself. Hello to all the friends of TWTGE, I’m Silvia Ianniciello, I was born in Rieti in 1986 and I currently live at Rome, where I study philosophy at La Sapienza University. I’m keen on analog photography and toycameras; since more than a year I run a blog that talks about low-fi photography, Holgamydear. How

was “PRAGUE IN LOW-FI” born?

The project PILF was born by chance, I would say. In December 2010, me and my boyfriend planned to do a weekend in Prague, during the holydays season. To avoid bringing home the same souvenir-photos, I decided to put in the case my favorite toycameras cause I knew they would give me a different result, more personal. Why do you choose Prague as your first (official) project? I would say that it was not a mediat choice. It just happened to join two of the things I love most of all: photography and travel. At that time my destination was Prague. Which cameras and films do you use for this project? I used a Holga 120 GN with a Fuji Neopan 400 and a Ilford FP5+ films; with the Lubitel 166U, instead, I wanted to get the effect of sprocket holes, so I mounted a 35mm Fomapan 400 (Yes, I always carry a roll of insulating tape with me?). Then a LC-A with a colorslide film to crossprocessing, a Fuji Velvia 100 exposed to 200. I choose these cameras just to emphasize the magical atmosphere that reigns in Prague, especially during the holiday season. Before leaving, I was informed about this beautiful city and I wanted to bring home some of that strange magic; moreover, I knew I could trust in the plastic lenses. Why did you choose B&W? I chose B&W cause the main idea of the whole project was that I did everything by myself: from the development of films to the print in the darkroom. I practiced the monochrome development for several months, even though I wasn’t very expert (as you can see from some smearing), while I have never done printing. However, a few months ago I found a Meopta darkroom enlarger with a head for the black and white, so for that the choice has been forced. and the colorslide film for the LC-A?

The LC-A was also a new purchase and I wanted to try it in colors, with the cross-process technique. The development of Velvia was home-made with the C41 kit by Tetenal. I chose the color film simply trying to give a little of liveliness to the project. However I did the prints of the

LC-A digitally ‘cause I couldn’t really do that by myself. For those who don’t know, what’s the cross-process? The cross-process is a technique that exchange the chemical development of color film. In practice, a positive film that normally develops in E6, would be developed in the bath of the negative film, or rather the C41; and vice versa. This type of technique helps to have hyper-saturated colors and strange tonings, these effects change according to the film used. Which films do you use for the polaroid? Yes, I use also a Polaroid. I brought my beautiful SX-70 Sonar Onestep with Polaroid Artistic TZ. At that time I wasn’t so practical with the Impossible Project’s films, I trusted more to use the TZ. However, the Polaroid I took became greenish! What do you think of the Impossible Project films? I think they are a breakthrough! I mean: I realize that this films are difficult to use and they are not cheap; but, I’m totally in love with the output they can give and I’m always inquiring about the best way to use them. [HTTP://WWW.THE-IMPOSSIBLE-PROJECT.COM/OURFILM/] For Italian readers, I suggest you to follow the Polaroiders.itforums, where a lot of where many fans report their experiences using these films in order to share all the right tricks. What are the fascinating aspects of Prague that your camera wasn’t able to keep in the click? Prague fascinated me cause time never seems to pass, as if it is not running. Although there is the famous astronomical clock marking the passing hours, the city seems freezed. Walking through the alleys of the center, in the Jewish ghetto or in the castle, It is like being in a period not well defined, in which anything can happen or not happen at all. I don’t know if I could account it in my shots. Is there some moments that you regret for not having take the shot? Unfortunately when I visited the castle the Golden Lane was in restructuring , it’s a particularly beautiful place, where the alchemists sought the formula to turn base metals into gold. At number 22 of the street lived a certain Franz Kafka … well, just one of many reasons to return back to Prague. If I’ll have to redo everything, however, I would make some photos differently. One of the positive aspects of this project was, after one year, to see how has changed my way of photographing. Some funny anecdote during the trip… Do I really have to tell it? Ok, but I will probably lose in a moment that little credibility I’ve reached till now. Just landed in Prague, I was so excited to go around the city that I forced Alessandro, my boyfriend, to left the suitcases at the hotel and go out. As we walked through the Old Town Square, full of stalls and stand where they serve the famous Prague ham cooked on grill, taken by the enthusiasm I shouted: “Look, a turning

pig!!!” and BAM!, I fall to the ground ‘cause the ice on the road. I took a really big crash, but I couldn’t do anything for helping myself but laugh at the ridiculous scene that I made. Sometimes it happens to me to look so foolish… Do you visited some photo shops? Yes, only one and it was really pretty. I was hoping so much to bring home an old analog glory, but I haven’t found it. I must to confess, though, that I haven’t tried so good, I was really into taking photos and enjoy every minute of light! Now we talk about the homecoming, was it for you the first time in the darkroom? Yes, it was my very first time in the darkroom. I knew nothing, I had no idea at all what it meant to see the image appear in the paper while it still immersed in the developer. It’s something moving, it is like you moulding your photo from nothing. What did you use for development and printing? For the development of B&W I used the R09 OneShot in 1 +50 dilution, for the color I used the C41 kit by Tetenal; and for the paper, however, I used the Ilford Multigrade. How did you get that strong vignetting, blur at the edges and sharp contrasts that every new lomographer wants but hardly achieve? Actually the blur and vignetting are a typical effect of the Holga and toycameras in general. But I think that it was more emphasized by deliberately contrasted development of black and white. Even in print I have chosen to emphasize particularly the contrasts. After your two articles on TWTGE and this project we know your love for analogue photography, so I want to ask you a question so frequently in our interviews, do you think that digital technology is destroying analogue or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I simply think that they are two different worlds and it’s fair that everyone has the opportunity to choose their ways for expression and having fun. I don’t know if there is some nostalgia for the analog, it seems instead that the market is realizing that there are people who prefer the film and others who prefer digital, they simply trying to satisfy both. It’s a like a dress, everyone chooses those ones looks best on you. Personally, I prefer analogue because I enjoy it very much, satisfies my desire to create something, to botch, to change without being in front of the screen of a PC. Do you have some future project?

I have several ideas that are buzzing in my head, I would to realize them all immediately! But it takes patience, we must be able to wait for the right time.

Where people can find you and your works? Mainly on my BLOG and FLICKR; furthermore, I’m keen on updating my FACEBOOK page lately Last question, Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? I just want to thanks the person who stands beside me and encourages me in this great adventure. Without him, I couldn’t do anything. WWW.HOLGAMYDEAR.WORDPRESS.COM

************ PAPER ST. by ANNA HOLLOW from TWTGE the fashion issue, April 2012 Chris Bidwell, 19, lives in Wildomar, California. He plays instruments. Jessee Fish, 18, lives in Chicago, Illinois. She sings. After a chance meeting through mutual friends, Chris and Jessee immediately bonded over similar taste in music. They became email buddies, and in a natural turn of events, started putting together covers of their favorite songs under the name Paper St. At the end 2011, Jessee flew down from Chicago to play alongside Chris in their debut show. It was a small affair, taking place at a small bakery in the small town of Lake Elsinore; but the audience’s love for them was big, and the only noise heard during their set was overwhelming cheering, non-stop clapping, and a collective begging for an encore at the end. On February 19th, I joined Chris in his bedroom for a short webcam chat with Jessee over Skype to discuss the band’s influences and ambitions. Anna Hollow: How did Paper St. start? Jessee Fish: We started recording songs from far away, and doing it frequently enough that we could potentially put a name to it. And then we did that. Chris Bidwell: I think it was kind of our goal, right towards the beginning of recording songs. JF: Yeah, we were always kind of like, “I wish we were in a band,” or, “We should start a band.” CB: Even recording the first song, we wanted to make it a project, and not really just a song. AH: Who are some artists that influence you? JF: Quick! to the Facebook page! CB: Uh, Fleet Foxes, right off the top of my head. Obviously, Bon Iver, and … I don’t know. Bob Dylan! Bob Dylan influences me. What about you? I listed three right there. 49

JF: Well, um… CB: Who’s influencing you right now? JF: I’ve never really thought about this question. It’s just kind of, like … I know for me, personally, Bon Iver is a huge influence, sound-wise and, um… AH: Lyrically? JF: Yes. That word. I think we would probably know better if we did more original stuff together. CB: Yeah. It’s kind of hard to say that when we are covering bands–like, what our influences are. Because they’re essentially the bands that we cover. JF: But for right now, it’s just, like: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Bob Dylan. The Civil Wars, maybe? AH: Do you have any non-musical influences? JF: Like trees and the sunshine and stuff like that? AH: Yes, exactly like that. CB: I get influenced by [being] outside. Specifically, [staying] in cabins really influences me. And that sounds so, “Oh, I live in the mountains!” JF: Oh, so original, Chris! CB: No, really. I stayed in a cabin for a few days with my family– AH: In Wisconsin? CB: In Idyllwild. Wisconsin’s for girls. And, uh … I don’t know. It was really, really easy for me to just open up. Up in the mountains, you can’t hear anything. It’s awesome. JF: It’s funny, but I have the same experience. When I was living up in my cousin, Heidi’s, house, which is literally in the middle of, like, gorgeous mountains and forests and, like, postcard material; that’s when I wrote the bulk of the songs that I’ve written. And I think most of it’s because I was in that environment. AH: You record in two different places. How do you put the songs together? CB: I record some instruments, and then I record my vocals. Sometimes I don’t even record my vocals first. But I record everything and then I send it to Jessee, and then she does her stuff and she records her vocals and then … then it’s a song! JF & AH: [Laughter]

JF: Yeah, what he said. We usually talk about it beforehand and say, “What can we do for this song? Do we want harmonies or do we want to throw in

some extra instruments or whatever?” And then if it sounds shitty, we don’t do that. Like that one song. [Laughter] CB: Are you talking about the Robin Pecknold [cover] with the violin? JF: We don’t speak of that cover. [More laughter] AH: How do you pick which songs you want to record? CB: That’s interesting. You know what’s funny that I realized? It started off, like, we were both picking songs that we wanted to do, and then I would just kind of … a lot of it has to with me, actually, because it’s whenever I’m feeling like recording– JF: It’s all Chris. Chris is the band. CB: No! I mean, you can’t … you have to kind of wait for me to record something. JF: It’s true. I can’t do anything except for sing and play the damn xylophone. CB: And hope that I’ll record the song that she wants to record. JF: Yeah. CB: Sometimes I don’t. CB & JF: [Laughter] CB: But it’s pretty fair. It’s pretty evenly picked. I mean, we both like the same music, so it works out. JF: It’s the combination of songs that we really like and songs that are even doable. CB: Yeah. JF: And, obviously, we’re not just choosing some song. We kind of have a certain flavor to the covers we do already, so… AH: Right now, you only have covers up on your Bandcamp page. Are you going to do an album? Of originals? CB & JF: [Laughter] JF: Oh, the age-old question! CB: That’s–that’s the question … I wouldn’t say soon, but I would say yes. JF: It’s definitely a goal that we have, to write original things and put them out in an album. CB: I would like to be able to come out with an album that is completely, entirely of our stuff; not covers. But for now, it’s kind of good. Being

able to do covers, you kind of just grow a fan base, which I’ve realized, y’know? JF: Yeah. CB: Like, I feel if we just wrote some songs, it wouldn’t have got us the kick-start that we have right now. JF: Yeah, it’s like, people know that they like the bands we cover, so they know that eventually, when we put out original things, that they’re gonna like that too. CB: If we do a good job covering songs, then they know we’re gonna do a good job writing songs. JF: I think it’s just a matter of Chris, like, growing a pair and writing some original songs that he wants to show me. CB: No, you have to send me your songs! “I’ll send it to you tonight.” That’s what you said, like, four years ago! JF: [Laughter] That’s because I’m busy, not because I don’t want to! I’ve sent you, like, all my songs! CB: Except for the recent ones. You said there was a list of a bunch of new ones that you just did, and you were like, “I’ll send them to you, just tell me what you think.” JF: Okay, I’ll send them to you tonight. CB: Do it. JF: Wait, you have to send me yours. CB: I’m workin’ on a bunch of stuff, it’s just gotta… JF & AH: [Laughter] CB: Mesh together. JF & AH: [More laughter] JF: Okay, you mesh things. CB: I’ll mesh things.* Anna Hollow is 17. She lives 20 minutes away from Chris in an even smaller town in California, called Menifee. She takes pictures, the ones for this article, included. To see more of Anna’s photographs, you can check out her Website or her Blog. You can listen to Paper St.’s music by accessing their BANDCAMP page. 52

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THE BEST FOOD BLOG EVER from TWTGE the fashion issue, April 2012 For this article we thought of a menu, based on the color green. To start off, a green lasagna made of four different layers: pesto, spinach and ricotta, scamorza, and topped with parmesan cheese crust. Then, skewers with lightly fried artichokes and scamorza. For dessert, homemade cookies with pistachio ice cream. Enjoy! Hi Cecilia, Hello Mattia. Please introduce yourself. Hi, we live in a blue house in the woods. Five cats and a wild fox wake us up every morning, and Timothy, our brown bear, brings us breakfast in bed, directly from the middle of the forest (we support local food).. Meanwhile, Cecilia studies graphic design in Venice floating on water and Mattia likes to say he is a photographer around Italy – he’s actually studying to become the new Robert Downey Jr. When and how was The Best Food Blog Ever born? Last summer, after realizing that since we first met, food was playing such a big role. Even before we met, we wanted to cook together and often talked about it. Our first dish together was something like a stir fried soy spaghetti with veggies, shrimp and lottalove. They looked pretty badass and thought of start sharing our meals. We both like the aesthetic part, so the blog is a reflection of that. Italian cuisine, foreign or sophisticated nouvelle cuisine? Why not all of them? We set ourselves no limit, and like to experiment. There are a few exceptions even if we are young and reckless. For example Cecilia hates extra “garlicky” stuff and eats only meat that doesn’t look like real meat. Mattia recently promised he would stop eating meat that comes from (extremely) cute animals, like horses. Really, our only goal is to show what we like, regardless on the genre, from finger food to traditional italian cuisine, we like variety. What’s your favourite dish? Favourite tea? We have a weakness, it’s more like an addiction: we love sushi. Our favorite tea is raspberry white tea by Clipper (and their packaging is super cool). A tipical Italian home question, long or short pasta? Generally short. But sometimes long is better (if not the only way) for sauces like ragù and pesto. In some of your posts you make a cooking playlist, how does music help and inspire you in the kitchen? Listening to music while cooking is fun. Also because we dance while doing it and food tastes better this way! Cooking playlists are a way for us to share our musical tastes as well.

What kind of camera do you use for your food photography? All of the photographs on the blog are shot by us, unless where specified, but to us it doesn’t really matter with which camera. When possible we use a digital SLR , like the nikon D700, but we often also shoot 35mm film with an old Praktica. Sometimes even the Iphone camera helps. To be honest we hate technical stuff and just try to be spontaneous with our photography. Some anticipation, future projects? We are going to add more information about ourselves on the blog, show our faces a little more, so people can love us more. We look forward to spring so we can start cooking and eating outdoors. Stay tuned for more photos, playlists and yummy stuff. Where can people find you and your works? You can find us on our BLOG and you can get in touch by email at thebestfoodblogever@gmail.com. Let us know if you have any request or simply to say hi, we would love it. WWW.THISISTHEBESTFOODBLOGEVER.BLOGSPOT.COM

************ CROWN from TWTGE the flower issue, July 2012 The first photo by Mariam Sitchinava that I remind is a pale beautiful girl with a flower vase beneath her, and from that time, I fell in love with her photos and she became a lovely contributor of The World Through Green Eyes. Beauty and flower are a costant of Mariam’s Photography, a real love that express her personal style, as you can also see in her new set, “Jasmine”. Mariam is always an emotion, from every shots she is able to extract the brightness of woman , and “Crown” is the peak of that, thirteen Georgian girls aged 17 to 23 with their self-made flower crown, all shoot with film. This work is a search of a deep beauty that excludes the surface filling it with the elegance and color of nature, as she presents it, a project that expressed her desire of depicting women’s inner color palette alongside with her beautifulness with the help of flora. Hi Mariam, please introduce yourself. I’m a film photographer from Tbilisi, Georgia When and how your project “Crown” born? About 3 months ago. I love nature and as you know I’m shooting women, I thought about the idea which would combine these two aspects, so I came up with the idea of the project- CROWN. Do you get ispiration from something or someone in particular? 54

It’s hard to say, inspirational can be everything.

Every crown reflect the personality of the girls or is it just a play of colors? Yes, as the descriptions says all of them reflects. Who makes the crown? Are you able to do that? No, I’m not able. Every model made their own crown. Who are the model in this project? The girls are Tina, Katya, Tamari, Nino, Mariami, Sopa, Keta, Lika, Irina, Sofa, Ninutsi, Anka. An uncomfortable question now.. What express mostly beauty, nature or your amazing models? Both of them. Which camera do you use for this project? Several… and which films do you use? Same here. Flower says.. I don’t know what its says, but I definitely know that flower gives positive emotions. People can buy the photos? Yes, they can. Through MY ETSY SHOP. All Photos are limited editions. Do you have some other project in progress? Yes. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? No, you know that I don’t like talking about myself… Where people can find you and your works? On MY PERSONAL SITE

and on FACEBOOK.

A last question, what is photography? Everything for me currently.

WWW.MARIAM.GE

A TALK WITH… BEN GILES from TWTGE the flower issue, July 2012 Ben Giles is a young artist from Suffolk, England. His works range from photography to sculpture, through music, who is very fond with his band Cassetto. We love him in particular for his collages, that as it may seem simple, it is a very complicated art. Ben has an eye for choose images and for piece they together in a personal way, creando a poetic retrò world, full of colours. Hi Ben, please introduce yourself. Hello im Ben Giles, a 19 year old fine art student that lives in Suffolk, England. What is your relationship with nature? This is a really different and interesting question to start with, I’m often overwhelmed with it, sometimes it can be just too much, the smells of autumn and spring can be overpowering at times, for both good and bad reasons, nature can press me down, I should probably be saying how beautiful it is, and it is, but it has a different effect on me, I can feel worthless and small and inconsiderate. Pollution and the vastness of exploitation angers me, yet I do nothing to stop It, I’m as bad as anybody else, I’m such an insignificant part of this world when I step outside, it can bring anybody back down to the ground. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? In reality, the Western world probably won’t look much different than today, we will have become more reliant on technology, more desperate to fuel our cars, more desensitized to music, film and television, more teenagers will grow up thinking they will have disorders and illnesses, the rich will become richer and the poor poorer,unless something radical happens everything will be an exaggerated version of how things are now and people will be harder to please, everything will have to be about now. Things will become more connected, as for the rest of the world I can’t think of how things will change, it’s such a large question, and I have neither the intelligence nor insight to submit a condense opinion. What is wild for you?

When making music and improvising, often a lot of what comes out isn’t great, but sometimes for as small as a few seconds this clarity can be reached and it’s this perfect moment that has happened from nowhere and could go anywhere, or fall about as quickly as it grew, that’s a wild feeling, Sometimes art can be the same, but personally art can never fulfill me as much as music, it’s the biggest influence on what I do and what I feel. Another is the space between two people, that magnetism before two people kiss or embrace after a long time apart, this force is there which you can’t see, it’s a living thing between two living things, it’s the time and space before it happens, I guess it’s the same as the thing with the music, I think I may be rambling.

What is Photography? Photography can be a lot of things; it can range from expression to advertising, from personal experiences to selling a story. How did you get into photography? It’s not necessarily an artistic reason but I was having adventures and exploring a lot with friends and I wanted a way to document it, to reflect on it and laugh back at it, it then sometimes became the point of leaving the house to take pictures rather than the other way round, it grew until I grew out of it again. And in art in general? Art is something I’ve been doing since I was little, it didn’t become what it is to me today until a few years ago, this was accompanied with music, these two things become the only things I could emote to and express myself with, I kept creating and now it’s a snowball, it keeps turning and turning, one day it will reach the bottom and collapse but I don’t see that happening for a long time. When you start to make collage? I started collage shortly after the video work I was making, it started out as the backdrop to the videos, like a set in a film, to enhance the world I wanted to create, but then it developed into its own form of expression, I started with juxtaposition and it evolved into lots of different styles, it was around 7 months ago that It took off, It was compulsive, I just kept making them and I feel that it’s coming to an end, it was never something I planned or particular wanted to do, it just happened. How you choose the photo to work? A lot of the time it will just hit me, I’ll see a particular images and know instantly what I want to do with it, I like older images, from the 50’s – 60’s, I like that nostalgic look, I think it creates better storytelling, I love the compositions and the almost illustrative look they have. Sometimes though ill spend hours searching or finding other images to use with another, it can be frustrating but when it pays off it’s a good feeling. How are your collages born? The collages are born the instant I see an image I want to use, I never sit down and plan it, or make rough versions, I make so many, if one turn out shit it goes in the bin or on the floor and I set about making another. Where do you get inspiration? I get inspiration from a lot of things, the internet, books, film, television, other artists work, it’s hard to pin point one particular thing, the band storm and stress influence the way I work and how I want to tell a story and how its viewed, film and television often highlight themes or ideas I want to work on and the moods I want to

surround them and books the philosophies and contexts. Usually I make this question about photography but in the modern time all is digital, and you are full analogic, so what you think about digital technology ? It destroying the analogic world or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I don’t think modern technology is destroying analogue ways of working, it’s certainly allowing analogue images to be shown to a larger audience, and I think people can tell the difference between the two types. Good can be done with both techniques, but it’s all down to opinion, I’m pretty oblivious, I have my way of working and I’ll continue to so, unless one day I decide to do something differently, but I do certainly prefer analogue and film. What kind of camera do you use when you shoot? Mostly disposables and cheap novelty cameras as I can’t afford to buy a ‘proper’ one, i have an Olympus 35 sp which is mostly point and shoot, and I’m happy with that. Flower says… If this is in regards to the flower collages, It’s about the celebration of life, and the speed and fragility of our existence, we exist and its bright, colorful, then it withers and dies and crumbles into the earth, like us, its personal though, for me it was when I was entering a new time, reaching the surface of water and taking a breath of air, appreciating what’s around me and embracing it. Ben you are a full artist, make wonderful collage, you paint, draw, make music, take photos too… which are the art represents you the most? The most personal work I have made is probably the video work, and there is a lot of hidden emotion in there, sealed away, a lot of feelings and memories I can’t express directly through talking about it or painting it. I think I’m mostly known for collage work, but I do more than that and I’m now moving into sculpture, once I’ve explored that, I’ll move into something else. I Don’t think one aspect of art reflects me the most though, it’s all connected and reflects each other. Which are your instruments for work? Scissors, Glue, found objects and found photographs. Who are your favourite photographers? I have always enjoyed Lukasz Wierzbowski. And artist?

M.c Escher was a favorite growing up, I think at the moment Nick Van Woerts bust works are what’s impacting me the most, to be honest, I don’t know that many artists and It’s hard to choose a favorite, I just take in a lot of influences and inspirations without really realizing what they are.

I’m better at talking about music, if it was a musician I would say Ian Williams or Zach Hill, just what they have contributed to each instrument and each genre of music they have helped define. You have also an amazing group CASSETTO, where you play with Toby Mayes, Oliver Pearson, Tom Hobbs & Isaac Nunn, talk about you. Cassetto is a group of five friends taking a wide range of influences and projecting them how they naturally come to us, while retaining a sense of identity in the group, no one is the leader, no one is an extra and we all approach it equally and share honest opinions on how to make it better. Matthew Tammaro in our last interview wants to know what is your favourite food? I think at the moment it has to be garlic bread or croissants, I just get cravings for both. You have some future projects? Just finishing off a couple of sculptures made out of toy soldiers, and then I will begin on another using toys and medications. Where people can find you and your works? I have a FLICKR, CARGO, TUMBLR, FACEBOOK & SOCIETY 6. We suggest vividly to jump on your society6, where people can buy your works. Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? There’s nothing I want to say that you didn’t ask me. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Where do you see yourself when you die, where do you think you’ll be, who do you think you’ll be with and will you be happy with what you have experienced/lived/achieved? WWW.CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/BENGILES ************ YUMMANIA from TWTGE the flower issue, July 2012 Hi Eni, please introduce yourself. Hello guys, I`m Eni from Albania, I`m a visual artist focused mainly in photography but I like experimenting with many art mediums as well. Occasionally I`m also a food blogger. I love to take pictures of the food I cook, or the atmosphere of the kitchen and other places I eat, drink, have a talk with friends, read etc. I have always enjoyed the long talks with friends, taking part in the kitchen while having a nice meal. I think for that reason kitchen is very important and warm place in the house. I enjoy

colorful, cute, cozy kitchens filled with nice stuff. In my opinion, food should also be colorful and eye appealing, not only something satiating. It should firstly fulfill your senses. When and how was Yummania born? It was December 2006 , the time I thought to start this blog. I thought about the name and decided to call Yummania getting the `yum`+`mania` words together , that is the mania to create yummy food. I didn`t have much plans in the beginning, I just enjoyed photographing what I cooked and sharing it .But in a short time I got quite a large number of visitors and fans so decided to take it more seriously and post more frequently. Last year I opened a TWITTER page and FACEBOOK page in order for the fans to follow me easier. But my twitter page is also my page where I share all the news on my photographic works and other stuff. Albanian cuisine, foreign or sophisticated nouvelle cuisine? Albanian cuisine is a typical Mediterranean and Balkan cuisine. Of course we have things which are very particular to us, but I think in general all the Balkan countries or Mediterranean ones have similar cuisines. We also have our examples of nouvelle cuisine as well. There are many new , talented cooks doing that. What I love most about our cuisine is the fact that most of our products are still bio and you can taste the difference of this , which is amazing. I have noticed this a lot while living far away from my country. The smell and taste of all vegetables, fruits, and all other organic ingredients is so amazing. So it makes sense that in all our tourism commercials you can read about the great food you`ll eat in Albania. As a bonus with a good price. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your favorite dish? All kinds of Mediterranean food. Except meat, I`m not a fan of it. I`m not a vegetarian but could live happily without it. I love olive oil dearly. It`s a very important accessory in my cooking rituals. Cheese and yoghurt are stuff I can`t live without. I like beans and all of the legume family. Fruits are also a must to me. I can spend lots of days just combining tomatoes+cheese+dark bread+oregano+olive oil. Watermelon + feta cheese, oatmeal + yoghurt + olive oil + cucumber. Cooking, Photographing, eating..which moment do you prefer and why?

All of them in different ways and similar ways. Different because all of them are special, alternative experiences. Similar on the way that I love to try new things, blend and mix them with each other , spice stuff up in order to profit something new and exciting. I like cooking and enjoy doing it for the people I love. I can easily do stuff which I`m not a big fan of just because they do, e.g cake. When it comes to photographing I love taking pictures of beautiful food, served in lovely ways. I also love food styling, I think there`s so much fresh and serene poetry in it! I enjoy eating as well. I have my most favorite items such as dairy products ( yoghurt, cheese, curd, kefir, milk etc), fruits, olive oil, soups, veggies etc. I have some interesting habits like, I can`t eat anything sweet if I`m hungry, it has to be salty or sour. I like to eat sweet things only after I`m full.

What kind of camera do you use for your food photography? In the beginning I used my point and shoot camera (canon ixus 6.0).it`s very comfortable and you can take nice macro photos with it, from the ones that enhance the food`s yummy side. But since the lens of it it`s broken now I use only my canon 40 d with my 15-85 mm lens or 50 mm 1.4 f lens. Where people can find you and your works? Here: on my FLICKR, BEHANCE & BLOG. Some anticipation, future projects? I`d like to use some fruits and veggies in a special project of mine. I have already started two projects i had in mind. The First one is anthoype , an alternative printing technique from 19th century, in which you can use the juice of plants, veggies,fruits as photosensitive emulsion. i`m now trying to print film positives as well as other surfaces , except paper:) this is a work in progress. The second project is hand coloring of photographic prints with plant,fruit, veggie juice readers can see more on the work in progress from my BEHANCE. WWW.YUMMANIA.WORDPRESS.COM

************ HOLGA MY DEAR/PRETTY IN MAD from TWTGE the lomography issue, January 2013 One from Rome, recently transplanted in Berlin, the other one from the beautiful Veneto. It’s thanks to people like them if films and analog photography continues to exist. Holga my dear and Pretty in Mad are two great young photographers that make photography with their experiments! This great passion, plus the one for cameras and blogging, has made them friends. We’ve decided to make a double interview to let you know them better. Hi, please introduce yourself. Silvia: Hi, I’m Silvia, I’m 26 years old and I like analog photography a bunch. I’m known as “biondapiccola” on the web, it’s a nickname I’ve always had. Erika: Hello, my name is Erika, I like to define myself with a term coined by the good Mijonju: a “Camera Lover“: I love any type of camera as long as it’s analog– I like to collect and use them. I like England, Japan and hairpins. I love to shoot with faulty film and experiment with new effects. I have a blog of analog photography but I haven’t decided if it is good enough to be heavily followed. I’m confused about it and I think I might be for some time. What is your relationship with nature? S: I like to think it’s good, and I hope that it’s mutual! In all seriousness

I find nature to be a refuge. I love the city but for me it’s necessary that large green spaces exist where I can go to ground myself from the hustle and bustle. In the summer, I usually go camping and mountain-hiking to put me back in a state of peace with the world. E: My relationship with nature is strange: I don’t like wide-open spaces, I’d prefer to be closed away somewhere forever if I could. Contradictorily, nature is what I love most about photography. I remain enraptured by the shapes in nature, the beauty of its colors, its violence and its sweetness. I have to thank photography for the hours I spend in the nature, it’s the only reason I spend time outside (unless you’re talking about the beach, in that case I could live there, I mean outdoors). What is “Holga my dear”? S: Holga my dear is my blog where I share my experiences with analogue photography. I deal primarily with Toycameras and Instant Photography in the Italian language. What is “PRETTY IN MAD”? E: The right question should be Who is? I’m Pretty In Mad. When and how was “Holga my dear” born? S: The blog was born as a personal need, at a first-built. I had been given a Diana Mini as a gift and was completely unfamiliar with photography. So to bring order to the large amount of information that I recognized from the network, I decided to create the blog. I secondly found that sharing my experience with everyone was helpful not only for my growth but also for those who – like me – found the beginning to be difficult and wanted to know more about Lo-Fi photography. When and how was “Pretty in Mad” born? E: Never ask a lady her age. Why did you choose “Holga my dear” as name of your blog? S: There isn’t any serious reason. I was humming “Martha My Dear” by The Beatles and I thought about my Holga and I made one plus one. Why you choose “Pretty in Mad” as name of your blog? E: I decided to give my blog this name ’cause I like the idea that it was my namesake. It’s a personal blog, first and foremost, so I thought it was good. I had these three words tattooed on my left arm before leaving Manchester, so the meaning is there and it’s very accurate but also very personal—just like the blog! Silvia, “Holga my dear” has just turned two, how do you feel? Are you satisfied with your work?

S: I’m very satisfied, of course. Firstly, I’m satisfied for this finish line…to maintain consistency for the same interest and an enthusiasm for

people who ramble as much as me is a big deal. Plus, I had great success and a follow-up that I never expected, especially in the beginning! Which are your favourites and why: Lomo Camera, Film, Toycam, Technique. S: It’s a hard choice. I would say: Holga 120 GN with Kodak Tri-X 400, developing and printing contrasted. A classic. E: Lomo camera: Diana F+. It’s the most versatile and equipped of all lomo cameras and primarily a medium format. I have three of them and I love them all! Film: I’m really into tampered film right now, especially the homemade kind (manipulation through dishwashers, heating and other spoiling methods) and Revolog. If I had to pick my favorite normal film I would say Ferrania Solaris 200. Toycam: EMINFLEX WIDEPIC Technical Photography: Multiple exposures. There’s no greater satisfaction than studying the first snapshot before you take the second one, and after developing your film you see that it came out just like you wanted!!! What is Photography? S: Damn. That’s a really difficult question. I hope I can get by with this quote: “I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.” ~ Diane Arbus. E: Photography is an aspect of my life that makes me happy. It fills my days and gives meaning to what I do even when I’m not photographing. What is Lomography? S: Lomography, for me, is low-fi analog photography. Is it a category? It can be. Is it Art? I can’t tell. I’m convinced, however, that to be able to really get the best out of it you should have a general knowledge of photography beforehand. E: Lomography is nothing but a funny game, a verrrry funny game. Plastic is… S: …a very useful material… (just joking!) When I think of pastic I think simplicity, flexibility, low-fi. E: Plastic is a new B&W disposable point-and-shoot camera by Ilford that surprises you. It reminds us that there are people out there who believe in film and still want to produce it. How is your relationship with the camera? S: With each and every one of my cameras I have a relationship of love and desire. I had searched, wanted and lusted to use every camera I now own. E: Symbiotic–almost like the relationship with my cat.

An your personal Lomo rule… S: Grain & contrast. Down with wimpy gray. E: Toss a roll in the dishwasher and enjoy the result! For those who don’t know, what is the SWAP? S: A Swap (also known as “double”) is an exchange of the same roll of film between two photographers. The result is a film that has been exposed twice and shows the look of two pairs of eyes creating one very different perception. It’s very interesting in my opionon. E: Swap is a process where two people shoot the same roll of film and overlap their shots. How did the idea of doing a swap with Pretty In Mad come about? S: We’re both passionate about these things and the timing was perfect. So we said “let’s try it”. The experiment went well and we split the swap in two parts: the first film was shot with a Supersampler and a Olympus XA2 and the second with an Actionsampler and a Lomo LC-A. How did the idea of doing a swap with Holga My Dear come about? E: I have a section on my blog that is titled “SWAP: a double with…” where I publish the swaps I do. I simply asked Silvia if she wanted to do one with me. Erika, please tell us about your PIMhole. E: PIMhole is a pinhole camera that I built following several tutorials until I created my own model. The tutorial can be found on the blog, or, if you are too lazy to assemble the camera yourself it is available to purchase on my online shop. Once you take some photos with the camera you can send them to be published on PIMholers, a blog exclusively for PIMhole shooters. Do you have any future projects? S: None at this moment! I just hope I can keep doing what I’m doing and improve, of course! E: Yes, I do! I think preparing a pizza for dinner. Where can people find you and your works? S: My Photos on FLICKR or on the BLOG. Other content, instead, on the FACEBOOK PAGE.

E: The right question should be “Where we can find Pretty in Mad?” because you won’t find Erika anywhere online (I deleted my Facebook a while ago). Pretty in Mad is the only place I reside online and I’m more than happy with this choice. My photos are available on the blog, its Facebook page, FLICKR and TUMBLR!

Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? S: I want to tell the world: Relax. E: Yes, I would like to say to everyone: shoot one roll of film, only one roll! Take the trouble to develop one single frame and print your photos. Afterwards, go back to your digital camera. Can you do me this favor, please? What would you like to ask Erika? S: I’d like to ask her: When are we going to pick up something together? What would you like to ask to Silvia? E: Are we gonna scarf down a ton of currywurst together when I move to Berlin? WWW.HOLGAMYDEAR.WORDPRESS.COM / WWW.PRETTYINMAD.COM

************ A TALK WITH… ANDY JENKINS from TWTGE the lomography issue, January 2013 Andy Jenkins is a young photographer from Ohio, US. In his works there are the basis of photography and nature, light shadow and details. With these simple three things he creates amazing images in the wonderful background of Ohio’s nature, the most special thing is that he does everything with plastic cameras! His film career starts with a Holga, passing by other lomo cameras, polaroid and reflex. Andy’s B&W are a source for emotions, the contrasts and the light fill the atmosphere, marked by the change of seasons. Hi Andy, please introduce yourself. Hello, I’m Andy Jenkins…a 34 year old untrained photography junkie living in Ohio with my very patient wife and mensa membership holding dog. What is your relationship with nature? Nature is a release. Working in a very hectic, in your face, schedule and being around all types of people on a daily basis, it’s nice to get away from all of that. Living in Ohio provides plenty of opportunity to explore the Great Lakes to the north, the beginnings of the Appalachians to the southeast and many of the metro parks central Ohio has to offer. Each season changes the landscape of everything resulting in opportunities to explore and take it all in. I think many take their surroundings for granted. If there is blue sky and sun I’m going to try to take advantage of it. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I don’t think it will have deviated too far from where we are now. Obviously, I think people will be more technologically ‘connected’. As to whether that results in more emotional or physical connection is yet to

be determined. There will always be that minority of people who strive for keeping things hands on. Not so much reminiscing on the past, but keeping things more tactile and tangible. What is wild for you? Wild is defined by the individual. I think the definition varies from person to person. What is unbridled disregard for authority for one person may just be an average day for another. Your Photos are made in wonderful place, which is your favorite place to shoot? Right out my back door. I’ve gone through many a roll of film within 100 feet of my house. It’s like my laboratory. I like to test or manipulate films. I’ll test new cameras or lenses. I try to take what is familiar and appropriate it to my own basis. What is Photography? Walker Evans said it best, “It is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing.” What is Lomography? Lomography, for me, was an entrance into photography. Having no formal training it was nice to grab my Holga and go. My photo taking snowballed from that first roll of black & white. How did you get into photography? Art has always been a part of my life. My Dad taught for 30 years and it was always there. I did a lot of drawing and painting and was considering medical illustration at a younger age. As I got older, I didn’t have the time I once had to devote to my drawing. Through word of mouth, one of my friends was talking about buying his daughter a Holga. I was oblivious to its history having shot with digital point and shoots my whole life. I began looking into the photos taken by Nancy Rexroth and Michael Ackerman and the aesthetic they conveyed was something that really interested me. I picked one up and have been shooting with it since. Where do you get inspiration? It varies. It may be changes in the environment, interactions with people, a new film or something small and often overlooked, what others would deem insignificant. What kind of camera do you use? I use a lot of different film cameras from 110 film up to 4×5. Most of the time my Holga, Polaroid Land cameras, SX-70s and Graflex Crown Graphic are somewhere in the vicinity. Which are your favourite Lomo/ ToyCamera?

Why?

My original Holga is my favorite toy camera. It was what got me into film

photography. I have several other Holgas and Diana clones, each of which have their own endearing flaws. An your personal Lomo rule… Don’t think…..at least not too much. You are also a Polaroid lover, how do you have taken Instant Film production?

the end of Polaroid

I have a healthy stash of pack film and integral Time Zero that will keep me going for a while. I would say I approached the end of its production similar to the way a mentally unstable person may stock a fallout shelter prepping for an impending fanciful apocalyptic world. What do you think of Impossible project films? The Impossible Project films are great and they’ve got 100% of my support. They’ve come a long way in a short period of time. Their new color protection formula films are really nice. Not sure if I’m in the minority, but I really enjoyed the unstable temperamental earlier films. I liked the struggle the color shade push provided. I have my fingers crossed that they decide to release something similar to Fade to Black or Artistic TZ in the future. You use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I like to think that digital photography can act as a gateway drug into film photography. I don’t think digital is destroying film by any means. I would hope that as the number of people entering photography via their iphone, instagram or digital point and shoots increases, the numbers being exposed to film will increase as well. Who are your favourite photographers? Walker Evans, William Eggleston, and Ansel Adams will always be the photographers that, even at a young age, influenced me whether I realized it or not. People who inspire me on a daily basis with their consistently amazing work include S.F. Said, Bastian Kalous, Ben Parks, and Adam Goldberg. Go check out their work and then keep checking. In your flickr page there are also many photos of concerts, do you prefer this type of photography or nature photography? I prefer nature photography hands down. I used to shoot a lot of the concerts I went to but found myself looking through the digital back of a camera way too much. Ben Giles in our last interview wants to know where do you see yourself when you die, where do you think you’ll be, who do you think you’ll be with and will you be happy with what you have experienced/lived/achieved? Why couldn’t I get the favorite gummy bear question? Well, I’m happy so far with what I’ve accomplished so I hope I can just build on that.

You have some

future projects?

I don’t have a lot planned currently. I just transitioned to a new job and have been trying to continue shooting as much as I can. In the coming year I would like to get into 8×10 with the introduction of the Impossible Project’s PQ silver shade and look forward to New55’s film. Where people can find you and your works? You can find most of my stuff at my FLICKR account at or TUMBLR. goings on can be found at HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/JENK22

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What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Is there a particular type of photography or alternative process you’ve yet to explore that you’d like to try and why? WWW.FLICKR.COM/ERCODEBLUE

************ MICHEL MIJONJU JONES from TWTGE the lomography issue, January 2013 “I love cameras, like a fat boy loves chocolate cake!” who doesn’t know this jingle? Michel Jones is known by the whole world as Mijonju. Belonging his camera reviews, Michel is a great photographer. His daily shoots bring you in his world, walking on the street, and from his intimate portraits you can feel the emotion of the people in front of Michel. But I think what we love most, is the simple love he has for cameras, especially Lomos and Polaroids. Hi Michel, please introduce yourself. I am a photographer based in Tokyo Japan, Love lighting too. I’m also have Objectophilia for Cameras. What is your relationship with nature? I love the beach, a place I love to hang out. Sometimes I go to Chiba or Kamakura, just listening to the ocean singing and letting the sun cook me, makes me feel spiritually recharged. (humanoid solar panel?). My gene is kinda special, I just turn really dark when I’m under the sun, no peeling or sun burns, don’t know why. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look?

I feel like some kinda war might occur, I hope it doesn’t. Another thing, based on what I see on children’s’ TV on a Sunday morning, all I see is that kids nowadays admire and want goodies from things that doesn’t really exist in real life, no real education value too, but i gotta give credit for Creativity. in my point of view, the future looks fked. Humans survive. It’s a curve, something good will spawn from it after the downfall, it has always been like this.

What is wild for you? Get drunk in a clown costume, have a chance to shoot couples in the park having sex and are fully nude. like Kohei Yoshiyuki. (he didn’t get drunk in a clown costume) but if it was me, I’d do it that way, and yes as you imagined, with a rainbow afro wig too. What is Photography? It means something different to everyone. I have a bad memory, any photo that reminds me of sweet moments and nostalgic scenes. Also Beautiful people age, like I said it’s for memories, I love photographing beautiful people. I’m glad I help them retain their beauty eternally in a visual way. So to me Photography is like a beautifully made version of a slice of memory. What are the differences between photography and lomography for you? Lomography is about groups and a bunch of people hanging out, meeting new people. experimenting with limitations. Photography is similar but only to a more personal extend, using your own sweet time. How did you get into lomography? It’s true, if you have and SLR or other camera, when you try to cross process, it will look lomish but not exactly lomo, the Flagship camera LOMO LC-A series is truly the 1 and only camera that has a unique touch in the cross processing vignette lomo look, “Always use the right tool for the job” That’s why I got the LC-A+. Where do you get inspiration? I don’t really know, I usually walk around in book stores, I guess by skimming though books I pick things up randomly? What kind of camera do you use when you shoot? When I work I use a digital SLR Camera (WWW.MIJONJU.COM), but when it’s for leisure, I shoot with my Hexar RF with 28mm f2 Hexanon or Polaroid 690. (currently using frequently). You like to use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bring him back? It’s not the Knife that hurts people, but the User who use the Knife, if consumers are not that crazy, Companies won’t be that crazy too. Analog is a romance (I’m actually writing a book about this topic will be out soon) I’m just going to be brief. Taking your time, developing that black and white while listening to nice music and a coffee on the table, is more relaxing then deleting 300 photos you took, and picking only 10. Its abuse. Limitation improve our skills, you won’t find the Sashimi in a buffet exquisite. But if you only get to have 4 slices, you will understand the Value of the craft itself. Thus taste better. It’s not Digital Technology that’s destroying the romance of analog, but the people.

Do you have some favorite film? Yes, I am sad to say they are not in production, I still have about 43 rolls but it’s decreasing by day Kodak 400UC and 5 rolls of Agfa UC, For black and white it’s T-max 400 because I got used to the developing time.. Who are your favorite photographers? Just too many to count, But here is my current best 3: Dan Winters, Ninagawa Mika, Terry Richardson. Which are your favourite Lomo/ ToyCamera? Why? Lomo LC-Wide, why? try it and you’ll know why. Your personal Lomo rule.. Please do Joke that look them about any

think before you shoot, don’t think just shoot is kinda like a people didn’t get. And YES after you get them developed please and Revise the mistakes. Remember the last rule? “Don’t worry rules.”

Michel you are a really camera lover and you love to share this love with your blog “circle rectangle” and the cult youtube page “The Mijonju show!” when start this love, and when you start to share that with the world? I think I started in 2009, more people start to become interested in analog, So I try to feed them with more information. How and when “the Mijonju show” born? A couple of guys asked me a few questions on Circlerectangle and I was just too lazy to reply with text, so I made a video and sent them the link, after weeks, more people came back with questions, so I made more videos, and thus the Cycle begins. Now a question that a lot of people want to know, how much camera do you have in your collection? Actually my collection dropped after the earthquake, because I know I like the camera, I cannot let them get hurt, so I spread (sold) them around the world really cheap, not to make a profit, but to give them a safer home. Recently sold my m5 to a Singaporean for a ridiculously cheap price. currently 57 cameras. In your personal site, I like your Portfolio subdivided in days, why this choice? The people in the photo are people that you see in this days?

Great question! Monday as a very strict day, it’s a start of the week, everything has to be right and standard there for I put those photos on a Monday department. Tuesday is like, you know there is still 3 days ahead before a little break, I put more shadowy and Gradient type photos. Wednesday is in the Middle of a working 5 days, a nice Balance, of 2 sides thus, BLACK AND WHITE, Monochromic. Thursday is a little more relaxing, you feel like you are about to fall onto a safety net, you know it’s coming

but not quite. Friday, you shoot in a more casual way, almost impromptu, just feeling and adapting. You have some future projects? Coming soon with a book and a Gallery. Where people can find you and your works? WWW.MIJONJU.COM for camera porn Circlerectangle.com youtube.com/mijonju So you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Yes, People usually ask me if I am rich, and always asking me How I can afford the cameras. the answer is NO, I am not rich, so PLEASE if you have a photography Commission Job OFFER Please E-Mail me at mijonju@gmail.com (Japan based only) if you want me to fly around the world please include transportation fees. So How do I afford all those cameras? WORK people who work hard everyday won’t ask questions like “oh how can you afford those cameras?” because they know how it feels to work hard, earn cash and give themselves a little present once in awhile, after many while you get a big pile of cameras. WWW.MIJONJU.COM

************ LOMO LOVERS from TWTGE the lomography issue, January 2013 LomoLovers is a book/magazine or, as its founder says, an “inspiration book” created by two sisters, Nicola and Sam Clark, who talk and share their things about Lomography. Every number is dedicated to a type of camera and it’s full of beautiful photos, great photographers, interviews and cool techniques for every analogic lover! All around the whole idea of inspiration. We had a talk with Nicola who introduces us LomoLovers. Hi Nicola, please introduce yourself. I (Nicola) work as a packaging and branding designer in London and I’ve always had a keen eye for photography and design. I got my first (recent) analogue camera back in December 2010 for Christmas, a Holga 120CFN, and had the bug ever since. I have developed a love of analogue cameras and my current count is 25 give or take. Over the last couple of years I have been fortunate enough to have won about 6 of them so it’s not solely my addiction to buying them (I like to think). Sam (my sister) took a couple of darkroom technique evening classes about 5 years ago, strangely to further her CV for her dream job as a scene of crime officer (not that it’s what is she’s doing now), armed with our dad’s old Canon AE- 1, which is now permanently hers (not fair) she really enjoyed these courses. She then didn’t do too much analogue photography, until she got her first lomography camera for Christmas 2010, a Diana F+. Sam’s next challenge is getting round to setting up our darkroom in our loft. She has had all the equipment for about 5 years and practically

everything was given to her for free, bar a couple of small bits she picked up when a Jessops store was shutting down. Our dad has even built us a unit in the loft, so there really is no excuse! What is your relationship with nature? It’s hard to explain our relationship with nature… but I guess we are quite lucky that we have grown up in a small village an hour out of London that is pretty much countryside and a lot of nature so we can sometimes take it for granted. What is Lomo Lovers? We are two sisters who have a passion for lomography and want to share what’s out there to fellow lomographers. So we created lomo lovers in the effort to create monthly “inspiration books”. Different cameras, film, techniques and maybe some specialist features you name it, we just want to share it. When and how was Lomo Lovers born? Strangely lomo lovers came to me just over a year ago when I was trying to get to sleep! It just popped up in my head! I felt that there was something missing in the world of lomography, I wanted to see more peoples’ photography all in one place, how they experi- mented with certain films or cameras and see the diversity of results without having to scour through pages and pages of online information. You have just turned one, how do you feel? Are you satisfied of your work? How often “Lomo Lovers” comes out? It’s been great! But it has also taken a lot of our spare time. There’s nothing really in it for us as we do it all for free, but there is no other way (otherwise everyone will want royalties). But we love doing it and getting great, positive feedback from our community! Sadly after completing 12 volumes over the last year we are going to cut it down to 3/4 a year so we can focus on our photography and other projects, but we will still be regularly posting on our blog (so you can still get the photography hit) How do you select the artist? For our inspirational lomographer we have been very lucky with the community on flickr and lomography, we have met a number of amazing photographers over the last few years that we find inspirational! So we managed to sweet talk some of them to get involved and inspire other people… there is a never ending list of talent out there. In your book/magazine there are a lot of amazing photographer. Do you have some favourite photographers, in particular, that parteci- pate in your magazine?

We have a lot of favourites…. And they would have to mainly be our inspirational lomographers! It’s hard to choose a few names, but a few regulars who pull out amazing work would have to be the “Butler brothers”

James and Marcus – always wowed by their shots, Married couple Ben and Liana Joyce (who met through flickr), DazB and CaptainBonobo. Do you will ever make a print version? It would be fantastic to see it in print, but I think it would cost a fortune to do! (and the rights to the photo’s would be costly too) Maybe one day we’ll print our own personal coffee table collection. How people can participate in your magazine? It’s really easy to do! We have a flickr group (lomolovers) that you can join and add to, or you can email us at lomolovers.com with your submission (as long as you tell us what camera & film you used) Usually in our interviews we ask to photographers that use film if they think that digital technology is destroying film or creating nostalgia and bring him back, what you think about it? It is really hard, nowadays with the ability to take photo’s on your phone and create “film style” looks and getting instant results, we see the positives in that, but the whole digital photography makes everyone a “photographer” with the ability to just point and shoot. We feel it takes a little more talent to shoot film. I discussed this with someone at work the other day, but the thing I like about using film is that you will always have hard copies, if you lose your digital files on the computer or your cd or memory doesn’t work, you lose your precious shots for good! Which are your favourite Lomo Camera, Film, Toycam, Technique? Why? I (Nicola) personally love my LC-A, Holga 120 and my Horizon Kompakt, each do something different! I love love love slide film, and my favourites are currently Fuji Velvia 100F and Lo- mography X-Pro Chrome 100. I love the punchy colours and crazy results, and I have an addiction to multiple exposures. As you ask to your photographers, your favourite picture? My favourite picture (Nicola) of my own has to be this one I think: WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/KENICKIE56/6191404498/ A lot of people don’t notice the surfer in the sky straight away, and I managed to get it in one shot, I just hoped for the best that it was going to come out when I got it developed! I was very happy when it did, I couldn’t believe it! What are the differences between photography and lomography for you? I feel that lomography is all about experimenting and trying out new films, techniques and cameras. It’s a little more unpredictable, you never know if you have got it in focus, what colour it’s going to come out and it constantly surprises and challenges me. Plastic is… Fantastic!

Some anticipation, future projects? We are hoping to set up another lomo lovers big film swap as we had a great time swapping films with people from all over the world last year! A last question, your personal Lomo rule? Always keep a camera in your bag and don’t be afraid to shoot! (I should really follow my own rules). WWW.LOMOLOVERS.COM

************ I LIKE PLANT, I LIKE COOK IT… 333BRACKET from TWTGE the lomography issue, January 2013 After a delicious meal offered on the home issue, 333bracket returns to delight our palates with a juicy sweet cobbler, plus a small interview to know her a little better. Hi Amber, please introduce yourself. I’m a London based unicorn/photographer, just wandering the universe with a camera glued to my face. Where did your nickname 333Bracket come from? Bracket is my favourite pop-punk band which I adopted the nickname from when I was 15 and it just stuck with me ever since! the 333 addition came a bit later when I realised I am half way to hell. Nah just kidding. This number has no meaning what so ever. What is Photography? Photography is like air to me. Whenever I don’t shoot something it feels like choking a bit. What are the differences between photography and lomography for you? Well, there is no real difference. Photography is pretty much a global term of which lomography falls under. Lomography is just a wave in photography that started in the early 90’s with the arri- val of the Lomo LC-A camera. It is more experi- mental and the cameras used are mostly plastic made. You like to use film, do you think that digital technology is destroying it or creating nostalgia and bringing it back?

There will always be fans sitting on each side of the fence with different opinions, some like to use film more and some are just happily adap- ted to digital. Of course digital photography has taken a big chunk out of the film industry in the last decade, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying

it destroyed it. Film is still alive and kicking! Israeli cuisine, foreign or sophisticated nouvelle cuisine? Israeli cuisine all the way! So many flavours and colours and mix of many ethnic groups throwing in their ingredients throughout the years to create fantastic dishes has made it a very interesting cuisine. What’s your favourite dish? I have many, but the one I find myself eating all the time is aubergines in tahini [you can find the recipe in TWTGE home issue, Ed.]. There is a frequent use of those two ingredients in the Isra- eli cuisine in many variations, and the outcome is always delightful! What kind of camera do you use for your food photography? Depend on my mood at the moment… sometimes one of my film cameras and other times I prefer to shoot digitally with my canon 5DMK2. Some anticipation, future projects? I don’t really do “projects”, it takes the fun out of photography for me… I just shoot whatever and whenever I want to. No pressure yo’. Where people can find you and your works? You can visit my website and blog on 333BRACKET.COM. My photo-blog on FLICKR and subscribe to my FACEBOOK page for daily updates. WWW.333BRACKET.COM

************ BIANCA GUTMAN from Kuusi #2, March 2013 Bianca Gutman is a young mind-blowing artist and photographer from Montreal, Canada. Her works are a trip in her life and, especially, in her mind. There is no word to express how she’s so intense, so creative and so real, and so able to let you feel her feeling at the moment of the shot. You can see her beautiful works on her FLICKR PAGE. What is photography for you? Photography is the art of capturing. A way to finally be able to express the beauty and sadness I see and feel. It is a form of communication, a way to show myself and people a message. Who is Binky? I know myself so week. I know my insides and outsides off-by-heart. I am obsessed with myself, and proudly. I’ve hated myself for years but now it is different. I’m good. I’m okay. I’m fine. I am a scribbly, anxious, 75

overwhelmed little girl. I float through outerspace every night. I kiss the planets and pet the stars. I am a new human, never keen one before. Being human is strange and difficult and beautiful. I like feeling wet grass between my tiny toes. I feel at home, then. The moon at night gives me strength when he sings to me. I am art. I am always art. Art is my soul. I mumble the words of my God. “Just be, sweetheart”. I hope that whoever reads this understand what I’m saying. I love you and I love myself. Just be, sweet heart. Love always, Binky. What is nature for you? Nature is an escape. It is home. It welcomes you and drapes you in comfort and serenity. It contains God-like colours, sounds, spirits. It is infinite and perfect. WWW.FLICKR.COM/34452341@N04

************ CHARLOTTE THÖMMES, LAKE OF DEATH from TWTGE the end of the world/a new beginning issue, February 2014 The love that we have for Polaroid is already known by all of you, but with “Lake of Death” Charlotte Thömmes leads it to an higher level. In this interview she explains her story with photography and tells us about the magic of this project. It was born from a personal moment, created during a trip between California and Nevada. Charlotte transforms the lifeless Death Valley in an alien landscape colored by the hand of a painter, making it a brand new place, powerful and own. Hi Charlotte, please introduce yourself. My name is Charlotte Thömmes, i`m a fine art photographer. If i’m not traveling, you’ll find me in Berlin, Germany. What is your relationship with nature? “Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her, powerless to leave her and powerless to enter her more deeply. We live within her and are strangers to her. She speaks with us all the time, but does not betray her secrets. We work on her constantly, yet have no power over her. She is the only artist, working-up the most uniform material into utter opposites, arriving without a trace of effort, at perfection. Each of her works has an essence of its own, each of her phenomena a special characterization, and yet her diversity is in unity.” (Goethe) Sometimes I suffer from the feeling of being detached from nature. Living in a city, facing pollution, not knowing, what is in the food you buy, the term “circle of life” can become abstract. What is wild for you?

The roaring ocean and the dense jungle.

What is for you an end? and a beginning? It is the same, every end is a beginning leading to an end again. Like a circle. Or a spiral, as a circle sounds like endless rounds with the same mistakes. A phrase of your renaissance. Even bad situations can become something good. With time and change of attitude, everything can be a good lesson learned. It is just important to overcome your self-pity. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to paint the future black, even if there are many trends and tendencies, that frighten me. It is obvious to everyone that we already have a lot of problems when it comes to environmental and social issues. Positively I imagine a future where we all learned to treat each other and our environment peaceful and respectful. What is Photography? Depending on how it is used: A snapshot freezing time and space, a memory, a document of reality, an image that lies, a way to capture emotions, an expression more than its literal presentation, a form of art. In you site you talk about the norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, in which way he has influenced your work? His work gave me thought-provoking impulses about the environmental side of photography. As a photographer, you or your lab, work with a lot of chemicals. I was at odds with myself, that with every picture, in which i want to honor natural beauty, i leave so much waste behind. These thoughts got me started to do environment friendly projects like chlorophyll prints, unique sun-printed leaves. Now I also develop my films with caffenol, a homemade developer brewed out of coffee and soda, to lessen my impact. How did you get into photography? I started after recovering from a serious accident in 2000. I picked up my fathers old camera and build up a small darkroom in my flat. Looking back i would say, that the feeling of fugacity of my own life brought the necessity to capture fleeting moments in time. In 2003 i took it to a serious level and began to study photography. Where did you get inspiration? Mostly the little shiftings of light and shadow inspire me. Every object or landscape changes within the right light into something magical and beautiful. Also big sources are, in no particular order, my dreams, nature, poems, music and traveling. How much affects your travels on your work? Traveling is a big part of my work. Finding myself in a different cultural

and natural environment is a good way to open my senses. And as natural surroundings and landscapes are my main subjects, i shoot my projects mainly while traveling. Back in Berlin, i then edit and print the images. All your Photos are made in wonderful place, but which is your favorite place to shoot? Every place has its own beauty and atmosphere. Even places that may look unspectacular on first sight, can become truly magical and beautiful in the right light. Who are your favourite photographers? There are plenty of talented people out there, but to name some : I can’t take my eyes of the beautiful and poetic images of Masao Yamamoto and Nicholas Hughes. What kind of camera do you use? I work with different kind of cameras, depending on the project. That ranges from small or large format, SX 70, Holga or homemade pinholes. In your project lake of death you express a concept of xc, endless and lifeless, talk us about it. The year before my father suddenly died and the attendance of death was all around me. It made me think about the momentariness of life again. We all know, that death is where all our life paths heading to, but most of the time we push those thoughts aside, as they make us feel small and our lives uncontrollable. I wanted to find a metaphor for these feelings and create images, that show a “lifeless” environment, a landscape, apparently denying to humans but on the same revealing the immense beauty that lies within everything. How did you choose the location? I went on a road trip through California and Nevada visiting several national parks along the way. The images were taken in Death Valley, one of the hottest and driest places on earth. The colors of the land and the stones are breathtaking. And standing in that hostile and unreal landscape made me feel small and humble. The valley is one of the harshest but most beautiful places i’ve ever seen and so the perfect equivalent for what i wanted to express. Which manipulation techniques did you use? I took the pictures and let the hot desert wind dry them. At home i peeled the back off and worked on the surface, washing away some parts, while others stayed. Why you chose to use a Polaroid for this project?

The delicate colors of the polaroid films are just adorable and i wanted to add an additional layer on the images, something unseen by the eye, but felt emotionally. So polaroid seemed to be the adequate material for this project.

What kind of film did you use? SX 70, slightly expired. What do you think of Impossible project films? I haven’t tried them enough to deliver a judgement. But i honor the people for their effort to keep instant photography alive. We have a perfect question for you by Andy Jenkins that in our last interview wants to know if Is there a particular type of photography or alternative process you’ve yet to explore that you’d like to try and why? That could become a long list, but one of the next steps is, that i want to learn how to print with photopolymer plates, as it combines two of my interest, photography and printmaking. I really like what you say in your artist statement on your site, do you think photography is now affordable for everyone and has become almost a game? Through handy-cam and digital cameras, photography is affordable to a large number of people all around the globe and the amount of digital snapshots is rising everyday, but i don’t think that makes it a game. We are mostly visually coined and in my opinion digital snapshots function as part of our memories. Theses images provide us with a simple possibility to out source pieces of our memory. It can be easier to participate in someones memories by looking at pictures rather than listening to solely words. The loss of these precious documents of time, no matter if it is the only hand-painted wedding picture or your entire data volume, is sad for most people. Only the fatal tendency to snapshot everything with hundreds of pictures instead of enjoying moments with all their essence and all our senses confuses me. Over the years I rather absorb a beautiful sunset instead of taking memorized pictures of it. Do you have some project in progress? I tend to work on different projects at the same time. I just finished a new series of chlorophyll prints, which will be printed on vinyl covers next year. And i also work on a long time project about human interventions in natural environment and on some hand-colored lumen prints. Where people can find you and your works? You find my pictures, exhibition dates, news etc. on my website: WWW.CHARLOTTETHOEMMES.DE. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Is there a “dream project”, no matter of place, cost- or time factor, that you wish to realize? WWW.CHARLOTTETHOEMMES.DE

FLORIAN RUIZ, FUKUSHIMA INVISIBLE PAIN from TWTGE the end of the world/a new beginning issue, February 2014 Photography is a magical thing, you can create something powerful with cheap stuff and overcome the fear in order to tell the truth. The human eye and the pain captured by a simple pinhole: this is the work of Florian Ruiz who tells us, in seasons, a terrible year in Fukushima. On 11 March 2011 after the tsunami Tōhoku, Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima suffered heavy damage. Florian took his pinhole and captured the invisible pain of radiation. This project earned him the second prize in the conceptual category for the World Photography 2013. Hi Florian, please introduce yourself. After Law and History studies, I am now a teacher. I started teaching in Syria and that allowed me to travel around. At the beginning I intended to have a kind of « humanist » point of view in desperate, stained, and disillusioned social situations, expressing the atmospheres, feelings, and sensations of desolate places. So, I took pictures of the intimacy of prostitutes’rooms in Pakistan, the frustrated hopes in a mining town in Mongolia, the day workers’ vagrancy in a forgotten area of Osaka… I try to capture the in-between, life at the margins, and borderlines of lives and places. I am currently using rudimentary photographic equipment, a pinhole camera, to capture the ghostly of the destroyed interiors of dwellings and the intimacy of people in the aftermath of the tsunami that wrecked havoc in Japan. My ambition now is to test the bounds of photography by challenging its ability to render an image of what is invisible by means of time and distortion. I am currently living and working in Tokyo. My most recent work, « Fukushima, invisible pain » is second in the Conceptual category for (the) World Photography 2013 (competition) and finalist of the International Emerging Artist Award 2013. What is your relationship with nature? As a city dweller I’m in love with the urban jungle. After 7 years spent in Japan , I’ve learnt to conceive nature under a new angle. I realise that I’ve been influenced by the Japanese shintoist way of life. This approach results in the respect of the strength and beauty of nature. This relationship with nature also modifies time perception since nothing lasts; everything can be destroyed by a natural phenomenom like an earthquake or a typhoon. We have to cherish fleeting instants. Much to my surprise, from now on, I can be touched by cherry blossom trees. (Why? Don’t leave it hanging here as it seems like an abrupt thought with no explanations.) 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said « You’re not supposed to expect the future but to make it happen». Talks us about Fukushima, invisible pain.

Within the natural environment and in the areas surrounding cities across Fukushima prefecture, I have captured the invisible pain of radiation. With an ear to the rhythm of the seasons as in traditional Japanese

engravings and inspired by their refined, uncluttered style, I hoped to capture the fleeting moments, the movements of climatic phenomena, and the ever shifting perceptions of nature, where radiation accumulates the most. I used a pinhole camera with long exposure times to create a record of the presence of radioactive danger. A dosimeter measured the level of radiation in milliSieverts (μSv) received during each exposure. Each photo is an accumulation of visual fragments taken in the same location but from different angles, always accompanied by the radiation level to which my film was exposed. The result is a combination of all those elements. A process of staggered super impression creates a vibration, a departure from the reality of the subject that reveals the presence of radiation in the image. The process reinvents and twists the very landscape, leading to a sort of vertigo or malaise linked to the quivering of the invisible. My ambition with this project was to find a balance and organization in a chaotic world, while emphasizing the intransience of beauty. Why and how did you start this project? On March 11th, I was in Tokyo. Two days later I was living in the south of Japan to avoid the incoming radioactive cloud as much as possible. Then when I came back, I felt it necessary to go to devastated places and make a photographic subject of the destroyed interiors. It seemed obvious to me that I had to show this chaos through feelings more than objective reality. I remembered then an interview of my favourite jazz musician, John Coltrane, who said about his music: « I don’t know what i’m looking for, …, Something that hasn’t been played before. I don’t know what it is. I know I’ll have that feeling when I get it. » The idea to take pictures about « the invisible pain » was born, show something I had never seen before. Which message would you want to send? My aim was to capture a kind of no man’s land in nature. I wanted to show a dehumanized world like a French movie from the 80’s , « Malvil », that made a deep impression on me. The entire western part of France was destroyed by a nuclear apocalypse. I kept this in mind with the cinematographic shot of landscapes emptied of life and enveloped in a cloak of black mist. What do you hope people will get out of viewing your photography? I’d like to portray beauty in the perceived chaos. Then also to suggest a link between a contemporary form of photography and a kind of abstract painting such as some of (first name) Turner’s landscapes. Were not you afraid of radiation? (Did you use some protection or measuring device?) Of course I am, but a friend of mine working for the French company AREVA who specializes in nuclear matters gave me a dosimeter to know the level of radiation. He gave me some advice like throughly cleaning my hands before eating and to wash my clothes each evening. I also brought most of my food with me.

How was this experience? I was really intimidated at the beginning since the danger is invisible. My only point of reference was my dosimeter that rang sometimes during the night when the radiation level rose faster.For the amount of time I spent there, the exposure level was reasonable. It was during the spring season that radiation levels were higher because of the rain. Once I was in a school playground in Fukushima city (picture with the cherry blossom tree) speaking with children who learned some French. Suddenly it started raining and the teachers started yelling « Abunai, Abunai… » « danger, danger … ». They immediately left the place to go inside to avoid the radioactive drops. Do you encounter trouble with the local authorities? Did they hinder you? I didn’t have any trouble because I always stayed in the authorised perimeter which was 30 km away from the nuclear power station. Which are your instruments for work? For the pictures I used a very cheap plastic camera, a wide pinhole Holga 120 WPC and a dosimeter to measure the radiactivity during the time exposure. Why did you choose a pinhole? I use a pinhole to portray the unexpected, the fortuitous, and the deformed as a multiple reality. It allows me to distort the colors and shapes, to capture unreal aesthetic of the devastated interior created by the Japanese tsunami. Such tools allow me also to capture the Fukushima landscape as time unfolds. Which type of film do you use? I use medium format (6x12) because I like their density and that allows me to print a variety of sizes. What you think about digital technology ? It destroying the analogic world or creating nostalgia? I don’t like the featureless and cold aspect of digital pictures. This technology brings an overabundance of stereotyped pictures. You have some future projects? From now on, my work is focused on the way to catch things that usually you can’t see. More and more, I move towards abstract photography. I’ve started a subject about ghost towns in China and about sacred places in Japan that used to be described as « space of invisibly visible forms». Where people can find you and your works? On my site www.florianruiz.com. 82

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A TALK WITH… CARLA CASCALES ALIMBAU from TWTGE the end of the world/a new beginning issue, February 2014 Carla is an art lover. A full art lover. Graphic illiustrator and photographer from Spain, from her works we can see her passion for analog photography and nature. In this interview she tells us about her two projects “Getting lost” and “Roads”, two works full of emotions and feelings. A journey into nature and in ourselves, everything surrounded by soft colors, water, peace and quiet. Hi Carla, please introduce yourself. I’m a graphic designer, illustrator and photographer from Barcelona. I’m truly passionate about design, especially handmade projects, textures, art, photography and illustration. I love to travel, to take pictures, to capture simple, true and beautiful moments in life. More and more I realize how important it is to share experiences and learn from the people around me plus most of the time I work by myself as a freelance so in my spare time I like to enjoy it with my friends and family in something related with arts, trips, exhibitions, films, books, hot tea and good vegetarian food. What is your relationship with nature? For me Nature is inspiration, harmony. What is for you an end? And a beginning? Every night end with what does not make you happy because every morning could be a good new start. A phrase of your renaissance. Have less, do more. What is your Refuge? My friends and family. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Hopefully better than now. What is Photography? To capture moments. How did you get into photography? One day I decided to try my mother’s old Nikon analog, I just loved it. And in art in general? My father has always been passionate about art, at home we had many art books.

When I was a child we spent hours looking at the pictures of the paintings and telling me stories about them, I loved the colors and I liked to imagine who were those strange characters. I remember Magritte really struck me and still today is my favorite painter. When I was 12 I joined an art school as an extracurricular activity to learn to paint and draw, since then I have never stopped to have a very direct relationship with arts, It relaxes me and makes me feel good. Where did you get inspiration? I find my inspiration in nature. There is nothing more simple and amazing than the natural light, the color of the trees, the changing seasons, the shapes of the water, the texture of the leaves… It’s amazing how in nature all the elements combine to function in harmony, as illustration, typography and colors do it in a good design. Who are your favorite photographers? I love very different styles: Sophie Calle, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, William Klein, Dorothea Lange, Chema Madoz or Joan Fontcuberta. In the modern time all is digital, and you are full analogic, so what you think about digital technology? It destroying the anagogic world or creating nostalgia and bring him back? I love digital too and I use digital photography for my graphic design work, for me are two different tools, I love the old texture from analog photography and the non immediate process, some kind of imperfection and warmth that bring to the images. Which are your instruments for work? I have some digital and analog cameras. What kind of camera do you use when you shoot? As digital cameras I have a Canon and a Sony and as an analog an old Nikon and a Polaroid I bought in a street market. How is your relationship with the camera? They are more than a tool for me, I have a lot of affection for them. Talks us about your two project “Getting Lost” and “Roads”. Getting Lost represents the feeling we are constantly locked in by our own day to day routine, monotony. We just need to get lost sometimes, to escape to find ourselves, to go back to where we come from, Nature. This project is the result of a beautiful rainy weekend in a little wooden house in the middle of the forest. All the pictures were taken in Fontcoberta (Catalonia, Spain).

Roads is a Photography project carried out mostly from inside a a car, on the way from Praia do Gincho (Cascaes) to Sintra, Portugal. The lights

and objects blend into the rain and turn into spots suggesting the way. These pictures represent the metaphor of taking a decision. Sometimes when we decide we feel confused, we have trouble seeing beyond clearly, but despite the difficulties the fog becomes diluted and we gradually manage to reach our destination. How were they born? Spontaneously, while traveling. How did you choose the location? In both projects did not plan the location, I portrayed the trip I was doing. Which camera do you use? An old analog Nikon. Both project have rain and need of freedom, peace and wilderness, why this choice? Which message do you prefer to send with these works? I love capturing natural phenomena, landscapes, places where the sky blends with the land, they are a particular place but it could be anywhere, they represent the opposite feelings that we sometimes have. You’re also a great graphic designer, an art made of a lot of other arts, typography, photography, drawing etc.. Which your favorite and why? I love arts in general, I work as a graphic designer and what I love the most and what distinguishes my work is that I try to work out of the computer, mixing different arts to always give an special and organic touch to my work. Do you have some project in progress? Next month I’m going to Bordeaux I can’t wait to take pictures in the snow. Where people can find you and your works? WWW.CARLACASCALES.COM and on www.commeuneimage.es Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Do what you love and love what you do. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? How do you get inspired for your projects? WWW.CARLACASCALES.COM

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