tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34886731079020459192024-03-14T01:18:59.347-05:00Jamie GoodsellJamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.comBlogger312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-76037730453623377532023-07-17T09:05:00.000-05:002023-07-17T09:05:02.342-05:00INSPIRATION • GUY WEBSTER<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mVwUEU_1bNVlRnEumaI9LRW3eLQUEQ8IHhMI_0MjrTAL_90EsyGuwCV-lJKASuby8FMg59f7j2-NO22YZ0SFMNRaqy2aTQCh18owag0UAdBnoy3t-1KVpP3vRVOoD25QethZRnPJyLe0MpAnhQHmnlWDQjm3oo5W4ELYVxP1C10n6JW9nylbMGEBcTQ/s970/thewho_signed_1000x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="970" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mVwUEU_1bNVlRnEumaI9LRW3eLQUEQ8IHhMI_0MjrTAL_90EsyGuwCV-lJKASuby8FMg59f7j2-NO22YZ0SFMNRaqy2aTQCh18owag0UAdBnoy3t-1KVpP3vRVOoD25QethZRnPJyLe0MpAnhQHmnlWDQjm3oo5W4ELYVxP1C10n6JW9nylbMGEBcTQ/w640-h438/thewho_signed_1000x.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">© Guy Webster</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://guywebster.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">www.guywebster.com</span></a><br /></span></div><p></p>Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-19714491786795354072022-10-21T10:28:00.000-05:002022-10-21T10:28:03.609-05:00INSPIRATION • MARTIN MUNKÁCSI<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM0aQ_gMsEUafPT-xBpZV8zxwMjC9MW_6G2VlxevaikCtwlgLJWobYf0B6JDb1ycqGSgPb913Nw5ZsPTs9YOQwWm-0h-cp0OrLrY_sTPHqYrVNNuOKbwOoXY8CEKKO4I1Lh0tl-w2OnMl8lHJSQdVF8lZgA3OqtaCtvAWRWs3QamIiq8uyPH3ayP1v" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="1019" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM0aQ_gMsEUafPT-xBpZV8zxwMjC9MW_6G2VlxevaikCtwlgLJWobYf0B6JDb1ycqGSgPb913Nw5ZsPTs9YOQwWm-0h-cp0OrLrY_sTPHqYrVNNuOKbwOoXY8CEKKO4I1Lh0tl-w2OnMl8lHJSQdVF8lZgA3OqtaCtvAWRWs3QamIiq8uyPH3ayP1v=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">© Martin Munkácsi </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/martin-munkacsi?all/all/all/all/0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">www.icp.org/archive/munkacsi</span></a><br /></span></p>Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-18623436440349793602022-08-07T20:52:00.001-05:002022-08-07T20:52:24.803-05:00INSPIRATION • ALLEN BEAULIEU<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jCSN0lxBuya7nsNCBfUB8vKfJuuHRbkDP-4jy04ulusgEgdGoPhTAEgMI6_KxUDOf03Ingj7kdsxwypTDpwVUf8YXtiyvUQXMikbMT34EgTnUsA9ah6mXZ66Wwyhv4flpjA4ds_pUvOHxUFgqHrj3felRfWNNVu_8Pz-q3xdsKaGtmjnp7Xe51Gy/s500/tumblr_54197b25a2a40d6a14a9ae0e4950df8f_7cdb7b80_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="500" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jCSN0lxBuya7nsNCBfUB8vKfJuuHRbkDP-4jy04ulusgEgdGoPhTAEgMI6_KxUDOf03Ingj7kdsxwypTDpwVUf8YXtiyvUQXMikbMT34EgTnUsA9ah6mXZ66Wwyhv4flpjA4ds_pUvOHxUFgqHrj3felRfWNNVu_8Pz-q3xdsKaGtmjnp7Xe51Gy/w400-h390/tumblr_54197b25a2a40d6a14a9ae0e4950df8f_7cdb7b80_500.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">© Allen Beaulieu</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://allen-beaulieu-photo-prints.webflow.io/" target="_blank">www.allenbeaulieu.com</a><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-57672439193827863002022-06-10T11:04:00.005-05:002022-06-10T11:05:28.718-05:00JULEE CRUISE <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">JULEE CRUISE</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1956 • 2022</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0xSmejpNcNjwK6kC7D43wQxyk5JrrKThuS_h47wEMi-E6cz1a4JDIf8zYGmI3tn3X6F3u2E0j5A4r3ssJ_LMqiNNrqBACeBhYspe8BmKDFT37N-JZvSClNDJv3IqZzn17nAIag2jbq5aDYoh_C2u6HHyECGYZFDV2SqqzKJGlaJ2REmUfXDxjHbdA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0xSmejpNcNjwK6kC7D43wQxyk5JrrKThuS_h47wEMi-E6cz1a4JDIf8zYGmI3tn3X6F3u2E0j5A4r3ssJ_LMqiNNrqBACeBhYspe8BmKDFT37N-JZvSClNDJv3IqZzn17nAIag2jbq5aDYoh_C2u6HHyECGYZFDV2SqqzKJGlaJ2REmUfXDxjHbdA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-31355414371806276362021-12-10T20:44:00.058-06:002021-12-11T22:52:32.945-06:00PHOTOGRAPHY INTERVIEW • EBRU YILDIZ<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">by Jamie Goodsell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All images © Ebru Yildiz</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.ebruyildiz.net" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">www.ebruyildiz.net</span></a><br /></span></div>
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWbQ5tOTB_eIgDInA16Fv3KTQBMow2T92f5PFmzNYRKZzpxux96E47J3kRSk47Y_GdHUBatOwqlhPVv13liGuASHeupTt812gaqB-GtJSFKcR9bvUeHaTGzv8Raywygt8Ukf0ZhCPA8Qcd0f9zSw0u5JiNbl7fn96GOKeiGs8kIjB4Al1ucmzdxT1v=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWbQ5tOTB_eIgDInA16Fv3KTQBMow2T92f5PFmzNYRKZzpxux96E47J3kRSk47Y_GdHUBatOwqlhPVv13liGuASHeupTt812gaqB-GtJSFKcR9bvUeHaTGzv8Raywygt8Ukf0ZhCPA8Qcd0f9zSw0u5JiNbl7fn96GOKeiGs8kIjB4Al1ucmzdxT1v=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is 10am in Nashville, Tennessee and I’m about to have a conversation with one of my favorite photographers in the world – Ebru Yildiz. I started doing these interviews back in 2012 with the simple intention to connect, learn, and to highlight work that spoke deeply to me. What I did not expect to happen is to make life-long friendships along the way as a result. Connections are so important in any creative field - not just to be able to work – but because as artists we have to continue to listen, uplift, and look out for one another. I guarantee that if you talk to another artist about their craft in real life, you will gain more insight and inspiration in a few minutes than you could in a full day of scrolling on social media.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When you see an Ebru Yildiz photograph you know it right away. Her work gives equal respect to both the dark and the light, which is one of the qualities that first drew me in. Skillful lighting combined with an ability to thoughtfully connect with her subjects is what I believe helps create such a unique atmosphere in her work. She is one of the true New York City staples and has cemented her place in photographic history with her approach (not only to photography), but also the way she uses it to help others. I am honored to have a few minutes to talk to her in real life today and I hope you all get something positive out of it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><b>"WE ARE SO CONDITIONED TO CONSUME VISUAL ART THROUGH OUR SCREENS THAT WE ALMOST FORGET THE VALUE OF SEEING SOMETHING IN PERSON"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>I’m sure you heard about Mick Rock passing away yesterday. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yeah I did and I really love his work. It was one of those things that hit me more than I thought it would for some reason. You realize how important that person is for you when they pass away. I got emotional right away.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was similar for me as well because he was just one of those larger than life figures that I think we all looked to for inspiration. His style behind and in front of the lens was so iconic - nobody saw the world the way that he did. When you lose such a unique presence like that…he impacted photography and he impacted music, you know?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was thinking this morning how lucky I am that I lived in the same time period he did. I saw Mick Rock in person and kind of have a sense of his personality (not that we spoke or anything) but I feel grateful to have lived in the same period and the same goes for David Bowie and Lou Reed - even though I never got to see them in real life.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When you started out in your career, who were the photographers you looked to? What did you learn from them?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It’s interesting, because when I started it wasn’t the music photographers I was looking at. The first photographer that shook me to my core was <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Diane Arbus</span></a>. When I started being interested in photography, all of the names you would hear were all male (Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, etc). When I found Diane Arbus, her work taught me that it doesn’t have to be a perfect photo - it doesn’t have to be an incredibly beautiful woman with no imperfections.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There were other female photographers I found very inspiring, like </span><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/sarah-moon/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Sarah Moon</span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and </span><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/deborah-turbeville/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Deborah Turbeville</span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. Those are the other two I found very interesting from the beginning, because the photos were never perfect. It wasn’t technically perfect, but very emotional…it had so much character and so much personality. I think from then on I never worried about my photos being perfectly in focus or if there’s motion blur etc.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2u0bBbZZasMdF8d-jn2SEHy2FvfH41bvAs9OkDEI97KxIV7vH-g8don5IJ7hCRCAZVkcuZdAklHCkReZpF6aXRRhOlEd2aJrBfHUhEmAo-B8zu2FQsWEZ7IuLi3w17KLHZjtnj9LvwFAjvKlVB_LD_Yc7p2-oVip6KRMK96-JzosBrnc7ZHafXnR6=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1513" data-original-width="2048" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2u0bBbZZasMdF8d-jn2SEHy2FvfH41bvAs9OkDEI97KxIV7vH-g8don5IJ7hCRCAZVkcuZdAklHCkReZpF6aXRRhOlEd2aJrBfHUhEmAo-B8zu2FQsWEZ7IuLi3w17KLHZjtnj9LvwFAjvKlVB_LD_Yc7p2-oVip6KRMK96-JzosBrnc7ZHafXnR6=w640-h472" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>It’s more about the moment and the emotion you’re capturing. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Exactly. I recently went to a Sarah Moon exhibit at <a href="https://www.fotografiska.com/nyc/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Fotografiska</span></a> in New York and it was absolutely beautiful. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>I was really inspired by old Life Magazines when I started out. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They’re incredible. Life Magazine is something so special. I wish I was alive when it was being published on a regular basis.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sometimes I think about how easy they had it back then because of how cool things looked. You could seemingly point a camera at anything and forty or fifty years later you’re like, “Wow, things just don’t look like that anymore.” So I wonder if fifty years from now we’re going to have the same sort of sentiment about how things appear now. </span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To me it’s already happening. When I first started hanging out in Williamsburg (which was around 2000), now I wish that I was taking photography more seriously then because there was so much to document - this was before I had even started out. It looks nothing like it used to now. I am a hundred percent sure we’re going to say that sooner than you think.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What is the current climate of the photography industry from your perspective and how has it changed throughout your career?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m originally from Turkey and as an immigrant I couldn’t start taking freelance jobs until very recently actually - I got my green card in 2012. Up until that point, I was on a working visa which allowed me to work for one company only. The process to get your visa worked out is very painful - it takes a really long time and money - especially if you are from a muslim country. It takes so much emotional power to go through that. All of the things that I've experienced - I just thought it was apart of being an immigrant in this country. Even though it took me fourteen years to get my freedom to work for whoever I want and start my career late, I happen to think you can either identify yourself as a victim of a situation or you can think, "Even though all of these things happened, I survived it." At the beginning, getting jobs was really difficult and of course being a woman didn't make it easier either, but I kind of feel like everything is changing in that sense. People are more open and there’s a better support system between everybody.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"YOU CAN EITHER IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A VICTIM OF A SITUATION OR YOU CAN THINK, EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED, I SURVIVED IT" </b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>So you’re feeling hopeful?</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I do feel hopeful and now there are different groups of people organizing like <a href="https://www.womenphotograph.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Women Photograph</span></a><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>and <a href="https://diversify.photo/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Diversify Photo</span></a> - both organizations are trying to raise the voices of people who did not get a fair share before - so it won't be only white males getting jobs. I think those are all positives. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can feel a lot of that in your photography. There’s a lot of depth, emotion, and mood – especially in your lighting. I think a lot of who you are comes out in your work and it’s apart of what makes it so unique. As artists, I think we are consciously and subconsciously filtering our experiences and all of those challenges we've been through into our work. </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That’s absolutely right on and I think you literally can’t replicate the same photo - even if you wanted to. The way we were raised, our friends, where we were living, which magazines we looked at, all of these things affect us - without us even realizing it - they create our own filter. It’s like your own fingerprint, there’s no other person on Earth that could see something the way you see it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">How has the pandemic affected your photography?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m not going to sugarcoat it and just say that I was in a really depressive mood for the first part of it. I’m sure many other people experienced the same - all of your shoots get cancelled - everything you worked for is taken away from you. It’s the heaviness of that and now you have too much time to think about what you’ve been doing and all of those things kind of add up. I didn’t make any photos during those first times, but when the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=9DWSL.aPEWZ9CHm3Bzbw79wgFsWBRIy2R1AMlDfzhUg-1638558829-0-gaNycGzNCBE" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Black Lives Matter</span></a> protests started happening it kind of brought me back to life and gave me purpose again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did a benefit project for an organization that was formed during the pandemic called <a href="https://www.nycnightlifeunited.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">NYC Nightlife United</span></a>. We decided to make a zine from the photos to raise money for them. It was really nerve racking because it was still early on, so just the unknowns and physicality of it was stressful. The people I photographed were working in venues, artists, dancers, drag queens, and all different kinds of people. The venues were closed, the bars were closed, nobody was going out, so when they came to the studio - it was like the first time in months they had put nice clothes and make up on - it was really uplifting for them. Just the fact that I made them feel good for an hour or whatever - that made me feel good. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Emotionally, it was very rewarding </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and that’s how I sort of came out of the depression spiral.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWEmrtp0Gk9ApBg6O3TRHsu8Er9zXDV8oCt2yzw5DVG6PMh8NiM-uBC_kfKVz7NugubAwZPvWF8h34a24O9UtQFycn8zqvvqNkN4tr6zr4a2d0kbW02eibf6XuRVceD93iFO9dVpCqjeQbZxKXge7MnSX0En3Nbp2YxDo_u3vkdsHp3QCRBIqjiaEl=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1372" data-original-width="2048" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWEmrtp0Gk9ApBg6O3TRHsu8Er9zXDV8oCt2yzw5DVG6PMh8NiM-uBC_kfKVz7NugubAwZPvWF8h34a24O9UtQFycn8zqvvqNkN4tr6zr4a2d0kbW02eibf6XuRVceD93iFO9dVpCqjeQbZxKXge7MnSX0En3Nbp2YxDo_u3vkdsHp3QCRBIqjiaEl=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One of the things I wanted to credit you with is using your photography for a greater good; from offering your studio space to LGBTQIA/BIPOC photographers for free; to making zines benefiting your community. Could you share a positive experience you've had as a result of these efforts?</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">People do not become successful photographers overnight. They’re courted by editors and there are other people that are making a difference in their career by supporting their work in some way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is totally who you know in photography or any creative field.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yeah, exactly and if you've never experienced shooting in a studio - it’s unlikely you’re going to get a job to shoot in a studio to be able to expand your portfolio.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We started this thing where we are giving free studio time to BIPOC and LGBTQIA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>people just to offer that. We pick it completely randomly - it is not like "You’re a good photographer or you’re not a good photographer," because who are we to judge that? So we randomly pick someone and give them the space. They’ve been really appreciative and I hope it makes a difference for someone - for us we have the space why not do that? </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But to answer your question, one thing that I experienced (that I have to say made me so happy) was one of the personal projects I worked on. I wanted to do personal work that highlighted people that don’t get highlighted necessarily. I like the power of photography in that sense. One of the last projects I started working on before the pandemic was photographing women that work behind the scenes in the music industry. I really wanted to highlight these women because they literally pour their heart and soul into someone else’s career and they never get credit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So I took photos of managers, publicists, sound engineers, tour managers, security, costume designers, and independent label owners. The project is called <i>For The Record</i> and is still ongoing because there are people that I have it in my heart to photograph but never did. We had an exhibit and all of them showed up - they were so supportive of one another - I could tell it made them feel good. It was such a positive energy and it made me so happy. Normally I’m so critical of my work, but this project made me so proud because of the people in it. I think personal projects are so important because you get to do what you like - not only in terms of subject matter - but also stylistically as well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJF7dOQHQ8bd08z5Bi72bTa-7TdW_jtlcNqmeC64o5kRW9pJNs7y8MslPTNykJr56FHuf8vKN5h7y8J13FBJYcSBiv6Sk_ogcUjWLax1nPVkWdQKto7limizV2oZO8JAcA7k_zTOM7tWFSU8uUZcz5C_xdmo61bx3hGri79n-jcznupEkQOJsbtn7s=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJF7dOQHQ8bd08z5Bi72bTa-7TdW_jtlcNqmeC64o5kRW9pJNs7y8MslPTNykJr56FHuf8vKN5h7y8J13FBJYcSBiv6Sk_ogcUjWLax1nPVkWdQKto7limizV2oZO8JAcA7k_zTOM7tWFSU8uUZcz5C_xdmo61bx3hGri79n-jcznupEkQOJsbtn7s=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">How has having a studio space shaped your photography?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having a space to work in is great, but sometimes it can become boring after a while because I really truly love shooting on location. I like the excitement of being in a different space.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Before I got the space, I knew nothing about studio photography or lighting. I have always been so interested in lighting - you’ll see me staring at the wall watching the light move. Having a studio gave me room to play and made me feel comfortable - but there is still so much to learn.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What I’ve always loved about your work is how you play with shadows and darkness. I feel like that’s something a lot of portrait photographers miss.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There’s nothing I love more than light. And light makes all of the shadows I love. It’s funny because when I’m shooting and directing the sitter to move slightly - so they are just in that perfect spot - I can tell they think I’m a little bit off. Like maybe they’re thinking, “It can’t make that much of a difference” but it really does. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It absolutely does and I think that’s a large part of what separates one photographer from another. When I’m on a shoot it’s the same thing, the light has to be just right. I think it's important to be particular. </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lighting is so important in a portrait. You need to hear <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/paolo-roversi/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Paolo Roversi</span></a> talk about light. He’s so mesmerized by it. Even though he is so deep into his career of many years, he still sounds like a kid talking about light.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYToQS2NUSGR3bqXgeYbnbVse2FG2x4jZbowI4Pp6hbB8kRU5qSONpFWUKI-E_OXWymA1AqTD-clYlu22dCTvAI_53bErvAuH1L9eD5Nmu8dIcABQ-nYEJ5mzbYHaI6ELy2xnZmy6Edtpz0ZIblfdumctIoHHRKRml4sMU8Qk8W4ZJY2ekc_scYnHZ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYToQS2NUSGR3bqXgeYbnbVse2FG2x4jZbowI4Pp6hbB8kRU5qSONpFWUKI-E_OXWymA1AqTD-clYlu22dCTvAI_53bErvAuH1L9eD5Nmu8dIcABQ-nYEJ5mzbYHaI6ELy2xnZmy6Edtpz0ZIblfdumctIoHHRKRml4sMU8Qk8W4ZJY2ekc_scYnHZ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>I've been kind of struggling recently with Instagram. I know it's a great marketing tool, but I also don't want to be subconsciously making work based off of what I think people will like, you know? I always want to make work totally free of what anyone else will think about it. Do you think Instagram specifically is creating bad habits for artists?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Overall I find it incredibly depressing. There’s no way it has positive psychological influences on anyone. There are so many good things and so many bad things as well. I’ve been thinking about this so much, because I feel affected emotionally. I have to explain it somehow in my brain so that I can do my best not to be affected by it. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The good thing about it is that you have access to people. It kind of democratized photography in that way. It still has gatekeepers of course - there are photo editors that could give you assignments or agents that could work with you - but it gives you the freedom to reach these people directly and people can find you easily. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING ON INSTAGRAM AND TRY TO DO IT IN THEIR OWN PHOTOGRAPHY THE NEXT DAY WITHOUT EVER HAVING A CHANCE TO DIGEST WHAT THEY SAW"</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">And the irony here of course is that we met through Instagram and I'll be promoting this interview on that platform as well, so for those reasons I do appreciate it - like you said - access is definitely a positive. </b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The bad thing is though, there’s so much visual pollution – too many photographers – too much of everything - it is kind of overwhelming in that sense. People are making work without basic knowledge of photographic history or respect for the previous generations. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think the most important thought I have on this is that </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">photographic trends come in waves right? </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now people see something on Instagram and try to do it in their own photography the next day without ever having a chance to digest what they saw. Y</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ou can’t possibly make it your own that fast. These visual trends happen and then you’re like, "When did everybody start using gels? Why didn’t I get the</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">memo?," or bedsheets as backdrops. It’s just like all of the sudden everybody's doing it - I think it’s kind of weird in that sense.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Absolutely and it's so easy to be affected by it all, especially as a creative person. </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I like looking at photo books, or old issues of <a href="https://www.life.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">LIFE</span></a> magazine. You look through things, you think about them, and you come back to it - so you can digest it. Everything is just so fast now. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">When you go to a gallery and see art in real life...it’s a very organic experience and you have time to process it naturally.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yes, that Sarah Moon exhibit I mentioned - seeing the prints that she had to approve - it's a whole process. It made me so emotional to see all the little details, little textures on her prints, those are things you can't really see online </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">- it was mind blowing. It reminded me how we are so conditioned to consume visual art through our screens that we almost forget the value of seeing something in person. That’s kind of why I started doing zine projects because I didn’t want things to only exist on a screen. It’s so important to hold books, go to galleries, and see things in person other than living a fake life inside a screen. Even just hearing your speaking tone - the way you choose your words - it gives me an idea of you that Instagram communications could never. It's a human experience.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I feel like a lab rat sometimes. I’ve found that I’m way more inspired outside of social media than I am inside of it. When I’m inside of it I feel like that inspiration is toxic somehow - it feels like it’s very disingenuous. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don’t want to find myself in a spot where I’m questioning my work based on likes. It has nothing to do with what people are liking, but having that knowledge doesn’t make you stop thinking maybe one photo was better than another. You have to remind yourself how stupid it all really is. You cannot let other people affect how you feel about your own work. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It’s soul sucking. If you’re off Instagram it seems people think you’re not working. I don’t care how many likes any photo gets, I’m using it because I want to post images that are representative</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of my work.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><b>"YOU CANNOT START YOUR DAY BY LOOKING AT INSTAGRAM. NO GOOD IS GOING TO COME OUT OF THAT" </b></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think we just have to be mindful of how we use it and how we interpret it. It’s a very psychological experience - I don’t think it’s healthy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is absolutely not healthy. I’ll tell you my secrets - I’ve finally found a bit of a balance. I put limits on Instagram - I’m only allowed on it an hour. I never look at it as soon as I wake up - that's helped me a lot. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I do other things like read the news, make coffee, or meditate. You cannot start your day by looking at Instagram. No good is going to come out of that. There’s nothing that could come out of that that is going to make your day go better. I do everything I can to give my day a good start and also going to bed - I set my phone in a way that stops sending me things after 10pm. I don’t see emails or any notifications. I just don’t look at my phone after 10. If I receive an email at 10 - I’m not the president of the United States</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">- it can wait until tomorrow. Those helped a lot</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and it’s improved things psychologically because you go to bed with a clear mind and you start your day with a clear mind and in the middle of the day if you’re going to entertain yourself that’s on you I guess. That’s how I see it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div>
<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What is the greatest album ever made in your opinion?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don’t even have to think about this. For me the most influential album that changed my life was <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4xwx0x7k6c5VuThz5qVqmV?si=cc4Qde3YRB-TdK8SP_2EeA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">The Velvet Underground & Nico</span></a>. It’s an album that I’ll never get bored of. I remember clearly the first time I heard Sunday Morning at a friends and ever since I’ve been obsessed. Brian Eno was quoted in saying, "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGQ6SK7dfiwY2I4sT5emePhXRC-w9N1bb_tDUawg8dObLvzndRnS08G50kUAAXNFPE3oxfn5ak0gFp5hZnXTaPpe-LVAwowcrGCKDEc_7fhDrcSPirXDUfrHi745hyVNgnZe64eemF5GJUdBRjKqz2fYLTTiOyTu1YG2qiWJM6ih7LhtwK7-yGfc19=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGQ6SK7dfiwY2I4sT5emePhXRC-w9N1bb_tDUawg8dObLvzndRnS08G50kUAAXNFPE3oxfn5ak0gFp5hZnXTaPpe-LVAwowcrGCKDEc_7fhDrcSPirXDUfrHi745hyVNgnZe64eemF5GJUdBRjKqz2fYLTTiOyTu1YG2qiWJM6ih7LhtwK7-yGfc19=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What do you want to be remembered for?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That’s interesting. Being a good and honest person I guess? Compassionate. I would want to be remembered that way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What is a mistake or an experience that you’ve learned from?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Let me think about that for a second, because I feel like I’m constantly making mistakes. I guess it would be when there was a moment when I stopped taking photos and thought I was too old to make photos in the music industry. When I think back now, I’m like “What was I thinking?” I was so young. You’re never too old to do anything. If you want to do something you need to just do it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What would you say has been the most helpful thing in your career besides your camera?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think relating to people. I relate to people and I’m sensitive to how the other person is feeling so I think that’s really important, especially in portraiture. Being able to realize if someone is uncomfortable etc. Being in tune with the person, engaging, listening, and being aware of what they’re going through I think is really important.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do you have any of your own work hanging on your walls at home? What significance do they hold for you personally? </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have four photos hanging in my apartment that are mine. CBGB’s had a gallery space called CB’s gallery. You could drop off prints and they would consider to include you in one of their group shows. A friend of mine said “Hey you’re in CB’s gallery - I saw your name listed – when is the opening?” I was like “What? I didn’t know anything about it and then I realized they left me a message at an old phone number and I never got it. It was an exhibit called “Back to the Bowery” and Mick Rock was in it with all of these other great music photographers. The opening was in two days and they said if I could bring them prints they would still hang them. I went to the darkroom and printed them, so I got in the show. It was so meaningful for me and it was the first time I ever showed photos in an exhibit like that. It was such an honor to be in the same exhibit as other photographers I admire. Those are emotionally important to me so I hung those up in my apartment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Is there a question that you haven’t been asked that you’ve always wanted to be asked?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well when I saw some of the questions that you sent yesterday I really genuinely appreciated them, because usually I get questions about like “What was it like to photograph this famous person” and so on. I really appreciate how thoughtful your questions are and I like how they’re about process and how I work as a photographer other than the superficial things. I really appreciated all of your questions and I haven’t been asked any of them before so I appreciate that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKBJGVMBZGitqyObJ93cmzfvam6RomHtQTOZmy4RwEcsoBcaHwnBC_w6Ogi6fuh3AVmigJJahfFEMGxtz1DANyqD_rZIg6qMv3tf_vn08Siqt7IrBYg2FLy9L8mTZjV7VGOksajYc8zk9Tv_mD85MtAurnnJuT2Y4hO6tqd1pDzlm5aPSVEUTjJj41=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1835" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKBJGVMBZGitqyObJ93cmzfvam6RomHtQTOZmy4RwEcsoBcaHwnBC_w6Ogi6fuh3AVmigJJahfFEMGxtz1DANyqD_rZIg6qMv3tf_vn08Siqt7IrBYg2FLy9L8mTZjV7VGOksajYc8zk9Tv_mD85MtAurnnJuT2Y4hO6tqd1pDzlm5aPSVEUTjJj41=w574-h640" width="574" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There’s a portrait of yours that I felt really drawn to on your page of Elif Key. There’s so much emotion and it’s such an intimate moment – which is so hard to capture that organically. Your work feels like you have very intimate relationships with the people you photograph and think that says a lot about who you are as well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sometimes I feel like people get so stuck on who’s in the photo, what they do, and how important they are - they base their value on that. I appreciate that you’re not looking at it because of who is in the photo - because I am sure you don't know her - but for the quality of it. She's a phenomenal Turkish journalist and writer. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I always found Elif fascinating, because the way that she writes is kind of the way I'd like to take photos if that makes sense? She was so surprised and intrigued that I wanted to take photos with her. I’m so blown away that you single handedly picked the photos I made with her because they mean a lot to me.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Is there anything you’re looking forward to?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It’s funny because I just sold my cameras and bought new ones. I’m not a gear person at all. I went mirrorless and got the Canon R5 and a Fujifilm Medium Format camera. I’m looking forward to trying those out - I’ve got some quiet time before it gets busy again in December - so I’m hoping to do some tests with those cameras.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also started writing a pitch for a documentary about a Turkish musician.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Oh that sounds cool, what kind of music? </b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It’s psychedelic music. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>I'm sold. </b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If he agrees to do it, I’m going to try and raise money for it and get it going.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Wishing you all of the luck with that project - hopefully it comes together. Thank you for talking to me for so long today - I really enjoyed it! </b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thank you! I really appreciate your interest in my work - it means the world and I genuinely mean it. It is so meaningful to speak to someone who’s into photography and you’re excited about music, light, and the whole process. I appreciate your time. Thank you!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />
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You can purchase it here: <a href="https://www.jamiegoodsell.com/santa-monica"><span style="color: #990000;">www.jamiegoodsell.com/santa-monica</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I took this with my plastic Holga when I was wandering around Santa Monica a few years ago and I've been printing it on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Metallic which gives it a lot of interesting depth and character. 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Why the absence? In 2019 I was very busy making new work, traveling, and building my portfolio back up with film photography. In 2020, I was changing jobs, narrowly missed getting hit by a tornado, dealt with no power for a few days, and oh yes...a global pandemic. I spent most of last year struggling at my new job due to a very toxic work environment and simply just trying to make it to the end of each day...sounds bleak and trust me it was! Luckily though as an adult person who has a good head on his shoulders, I remembered to exercise regularly, drink plenty of water, and continually look for opportunities that would fulfill me in life. I can't tell you what to do, but exercise really is a wonderful thing and can help pull you out of the deepest places. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So I am going to try and make more of a regular appearance this year and keep anyone that still reads this updated if not just for my own document of better days ahead. I gladly put in my two weeks last Friday and could not be happier that I will no longer have to work with a verbally abusive person. Unfortunately we can't help who we work with and there was no way of me knowing before I took that job, as they didn't reveal it during the interview process (why would they?). I wish very much that I had never taken that position, but at the same time I'm very glad that I did. It pushed me to look for unique opportunities every single day, so there is at least some silver lining in there. I think that's all we can do in life is try and find the positives in situations and keep working towards a more peaceful and in-tune existence. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm revealing a lot here because I've been through a lot over the past year and it just seems like the right place to do it. So now that I'm in the midst of changing jobs I can tell you that I've never been happier and more hopeful - although I don't want to jinx it. I can finally start to see a future where I'm making more photography and staying inspired to keep creating. I think that 2021 is going to shape up to be a really good year and I'm looking forward to sharing the projects that I'm working on with you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One thing that I've been on and off working on for the past few years is putting out a photography zine of images I've collected of kids with skateboards. I'm really excited about this one and finally have plans to release it this year. For those of you that are still here reading this, thank you for your support and I hope that 2021 brings you some peace of mind and stability - we all need to feel good about what we're doing. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bj05CvSUmV8/YC1S-l6wV-I/AAAAAAAAHD4/-j_cmoVGQdg6azEN77pkv-YnSdVRbJSkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/sws_edit_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1166" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bj05CvSUmV8/YC1S-l6wV-I/AAAAAAAAHD4/-j_cmoVGQdg6azEN77pkv-YnSdVRbJSkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/sws_edit_01.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sidewalksurfinzine/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Follow on Instagram! </span></a><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lots of love to you all, </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jamie </span></p>Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-21933334727071533392019-02-20T07:24:00.004-06:002019-10-26T12:13:02.266-05:00INSPIRATION • RICHARD BEAVEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jamie Goodsellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05785269652472119988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3488673107902045919.post-53502017975259982402018-09-30T00:06:00.000-05:002020-06-20T11:30:16.189-05:00PHOTOGRAPHY INTERVIEW • PORTRAIT MAMI<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Portrait Mami is a photographer who possesses an ability to capture the vulnerability and strength within her subjects. Her images depict people of various sexual identities, colors, shapes, sizes, and - to put it quite simply - they’re beautiful pictures of humanity at its finest. The message being of course, that there are strength and validity in all forms of love. Her work delivers these themes to the forefront and showcases them at a time when we need it the most. I feel deeply connected to her work because of how incredibly open and thoughtful it is. It was an honor to talk with her and get to know her - without further ado, please enjoy the thoughts and ideas shared with us from Portrait Mami. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, it's stupidly expensive. The poverty rate is so awful. Anywhere you go there are homeless camps with all of these families - not drug dealers or crazy people - it's families that just cannot afford it. It's families that had their homes and neighborhoods taken down by Japanese corporate companies who are now doing three million dollar condos on their land and the locals have nowhere to go. People think of Hawaii as this paradise where everything is perfect, but the locals have been stripped away of everything from other immigrants trying to take all of their resources and basically drove them into homelessness and poverty. The schools are fucked up - the kids aren't getting a good education - and it's crazy out there. My mind was blown when I saw all that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">It's very interesting (despite my dad being a very conservative pastor), he had me in the arts a lot growing up. He wanted me to have every opportunity in life and has worked so hard to make basically everything that he could perfect for me. He had me invested in children's theatre, operas, musicals, girl scouts, I took violin class, piano, I did ballet for ten years. He just had me all over the place and it's kind of overwhelming when I think about it, but it was really interesting because you're doing all of these different things that teach you so many different lessons. There were so many stories from people, which I think is really cool - there was a diversity of education through that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thank you so much! My Bachelor's degree is in Broadcast Journalism from Hampton University's - Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. Though I dabbled slightly in photography in college, I wasn't fully committed. After I graduated, I became more serious with it. I learned the art of analog photography through my good friend Sean Lewis who taught me the basics on the technicality. My dad had these old Pentax cameras that he didn't use anymore and wanted me to see if they were still working. Pretty much everything changed after that. It was kind of like love at first sight. You see someone walking down the street and you know that's the one...that's how I felt after I took my first photograph on a film camera. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>That's beautiful. Where does some of your inspiration come from? </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">My use of color typically comes from hazy fogs of nostalgia that I have from my childhood or just a time in history that makes my heart fond. Sometimes it's inspired by dreams I have. These particles of my life play a huge part in my utilization of color, composition, light, and mood. I get inspired a lot from movies and the color palettes in film. I get a lot of inspiration from the '90s to early 2000's movies like <i>Cruel Intentions</i>, <i>She's All That</i>, and <i>Clueless</i>. I love that era so much. People had their own unique spark, but it was very minimalistic at the same time - I love the collaboration of the two. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It depends - a lot of the stuff is random. For example, the shoot I did recently with De'Onna and Stephen (with the moody blue lighting in the background) that was a thing where we were just all feeling creative that day. We went to Wal-Mart and bought like thirty dollars worth of fabric, a bouquet of flowers, and then we hung up some stuff in my apartment and just started playing around. It's crazy because you do these random things and then it ends up becoming something bigger than you expected. I think it's very interesting how that happens a lot for my work because my work is intentional but then it's not at the same time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">My ability to be personable. I think it's really important to have a sense of connection and respect. I just treat everybody like they're my best friends. It's fun to get to know them and make them feel good about themselves while shooting. I make sure they feel confident and respected. I give them the necessary space that they need when they undress for intimate shoots. I make sure that I talk to them in detail about things beforehand and listen to any concerns they might have before the shoot. I don't like to pressure anything on anybody. If people tell me they don't feel comfortable, then I don't do it. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think a lot of photographers miss that. I think that's what separates me a lot from other artists because people know that they can trust me and no matter what space we're working in that it's a safe space. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Connection, mood, lighting, and color scheme. When these four staples are brewed together in the right sense, magic unfolds. Something that tells a story, expresses a certain vibe, or something that person went through. I really like personal stories that people can relate to on a larger scale. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Once I got to a point with my credentials where I thought I deserved to be paid, I set up a price breakdown and just laid down the rules for people. "This is what I'm worth now because these are the things that I've done, I know I'll give you this quality so here's my price." People respected that and started paying me. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">All of that has just been through word of mouth and social media marketing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>You've been very successful with your marketing - what's the secret? </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There's not really any secret, you know? I think sometimes photographers get peer pressured a lot </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and don't really know how to speak up for themselves. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We need to start being more direct with each other. When you're upfront with people (in my experience) it's either they don't pay (which you know, their loss) or they do pay. That helps eliminate people and bring in the correct clientele who will always respect me. It just all starts with being direct. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I love about analog photography is that every time is like Christmas in the sense that you never know what you're going to get. I love how it's a game of chance every time, you're rolling the dice. I like that thrill. Sometimes I might get some cool light leaks that I thought maybe fucked up the image but instead made it look really cool. When my Pentax camera got taken by the ocean (I retrieved it) it was completely drenched. I developed the film anyway, even though it was caked in saltwater and sand. It ended up making these cool colors and the sand that got trapped in the negative made it look like the models were sparkling. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a mix of images that I did in a slideshow. One of the images was of two men kissing, but they were naked - it was censored and you couldn't see their genitals. They reported it and took it down which took all of the images in that slideshow down as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I think that it's absolute garbage. I feel like it's very calculated, sexist, and homophobic in a sense - especially with all of the sponsors and corporate leaders that are on Instagram. You have these white male photographers who are knowingly shooting underage girls and it's been made public throughout all social media. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There's an international model that I follow on Instagram and she's made her account a safe haven for other models to tell their stories of sexual assault and any type of abuse from other photographers. So people like James O'Donnell (@shitjimmyshoots) and Mark Del Mar (@markdelmars @bleeblu) came up in almost 2-300 accounts. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's how I found out about them. After that, all these other social media accounts came out with all of these blacklists. That's when I found out that all of these photographers I used to look up to had these horrible background stories. That opened my eyes to a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">No one reports them. You have photographers like myself who censor everything correctly, shoot ethical intimate photography, and it gets reported constantly. There are several accounts of rape, molestation, child pornography, and the accounts don't get taken down. I'm on my fifteenth account now. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People don't do anything about it until all of the models come together. Some of the photographers went into hiding immediately and took their own accounts down. Instagram never really does anything about it until people start making a voice and setting a platform for people to talk about these things, or else people are never gonna know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With my intimate work, it's so important for people to understand how sex is supposed to be consensual and healing. I just make sure that people have that connection and that it's of equal power - or the woman is confident in her situation - being able to capture that so people understand what real chemistry is like. I'm trying to put that out more into the universe instead of all of these hyper-sexualized images of women that make it look like we can treat them however we want. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In our porn too, there's a lot of hate and shame-fucking where the woman never really has power in the situation - it's very degrading. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Women aren't just these toys to throw around, we're very precious creatures that deserve to have love and affection. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://erikalust.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Erica Lust</span></a>, who's a big-time porn director in Barcelona, Spain has been a big inspiration for me. She's one of the rare female directors in the industry and there's a really great documentary on Netflix right now called </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAF0p0KyK9c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Turned On</span></a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. She's on episode one talking about how she got into the industry and when I saw that I thought, "finally, women who are like me!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Gosh, there's so many that I love. I really love <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stephens_universe/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Stephens Universe</span></a>. You never get to see black men photographed like that. It's always tough or fashion forward. I love the intimacy in his eyes, they're so powerful and it draws you in. I didn't even edit that picture, that's how the color came out - even though my walls are white - because we played with the lighting from the Christmas ribbon, which caused that rainbow streak to hit his face. I thought it was cool how that came out, very experimental and just a lot of fun. I just love the color, his expression; it was a really fun day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I don't like to do the stereotypical magazine/commercial style for guys. I want them to be more vulnerable, in touch with their emotions and feelings, so I'm trying to convey that. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You don't always have to be this big strong person who can't cry - you're a human being too - like open yourself up. I really like to try and do that more when I shoot male models. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It started around first grade when I realized something felt different about me. I couldn't truly explain it back then as it was all so new to me. From the beginning, I could tell I saw and felt things differently than others around me. Growing up at first, I only liked girls. When I had my first boyfriend in high school, I realized that I was bisexual. It's the unconventional and sort of reversed way to go about it, but in my circumstance - that's what happened. I never wanted to do a "coming out" story - not because I felt ashamed - but because it was just something that felt normal to me. Despite growing up in a predominately southern white area (at the time), I still felt acceptance from my peers. Some may have disagreed, even my family, but there was never any ill will towards me. I was one of the rare lucky ones. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Speaking about my work on sexuality, a lot of variables come into play. The main reason I photograph sexuality the way that I do is because I am a rape survivor. I was driven to make people understand in my work that being intimate with someone is: CONSENSUAL, HEALING, UNDERSTANDING, AND BALANCED. I try my hardest in every shoot to show that the love and healing process is there between two individuals. No matter sexuality, no matter gender, no matter ethnicity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They're a community that really helps you out! Because of <a href="https://girlgaze.tv/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Girl Gaze</span></a>, I got into Vogue Paris, and their big art show in L.A. - that had Reese Witherspoon and her daughter - and now they both love my work and keep in contact with me. I got to be in one of their books that came out last year. Girl Gaze gave me the opportunity to be in <a href="https://www.lomography.com/magazine/336247-lomowomen-photographer-lauren-woods-about-female-creatives-on-the-rise" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">LomoWomen</span></a> for Lomography USA, it's been amazing. They're the reason a Sundance film director reached out to me to be their director of photography for a movie in Atlanta, so we're going to start shooting that next summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Girl Gaze has helped me with a lot of things; if it wasn't for them I don't think I would have gotten as many opportunities as I have now. Their platform has allowed me to extend my reach to so many people both nationally and internationally. I'm going to be in a Girl Gaze: Behind The Lens feature for their website and Instagram very soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep pursuing what you're doing. Consistency. Keep going. The right people will look at you and they'll reach out to you. Keep doing it, keep practicing, and keep figuring out what it is you want. Someone out there is looking, they're looking at your progression, and if it's not happening now then it's just waiting for the right moment - but it will happen. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We gotta start treating each other better and that's what I really want to put out at the end of the day. We need to have more open communication and understanding of our wants and our needs, and start being able to be vulnerable with each other, and just learning to talk more and be there for one another. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh my gosh, thank you so much, Jamie, that truly means the world...it never gets old. I'm so happy that it means this much to you because it means that much to me and it's awesome that it affects other people that way too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can view more of Portrait Mami's photography here: <a href="https://portraitmami.wixsite.com/mysite" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">portraitmami.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow her on Instagram here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_portraitmami/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">@_portraitmami</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first full length studio album cover I've shot for Third Man Records and I couldn't be more proud to share it with you! <i>Mr. Jukebox</i> comes out April 20 - Here's a link to the press release: <a href="https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/joshua-hedleys-debut-album-mr-jukebox-out-april-20/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Joshua Hedley's Debut Album Mr. Jukebox</span></a></span></div>
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