A selection of interviews I’ve conducted with artists, researchers, philosophers and more.
Interview with David LaChapelle
"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
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—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Audrey Tautou
"I will always have problems because I’m a self-made photographer. When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot."
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)
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—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Holly Krieger
“One moment, you have no clue what some piece of mathematics is saying or how it’s working, and suddenly there’s like this neurological shift and it clicks into place.”
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
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—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
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Interview with Max Pinckers
"A computer doesn’t emotionally interpret the picture. It sees a woman, it sees a child, and maybe it can recognise ‘grieving’ because it knows from all the other pictures that it’s supposed to be grieving, but it doesn’t feel anything."
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
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—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Rina Mae Acosta
"School is supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to compete and get the highest scores. It’s a place to let a child discover who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
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—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
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Interview with Klaus Pichler
"Some scientific discoveries have come from looking at something that seems to be – at that moment – irrational and then discovering that it’s not that irrational. So, the earth isn’t flat, it’s a sphere."
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
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—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Katrin Koenning
"It’s not my aim to make statements about the idea of distance, but rather to question it. Much of my work is personal and comes from a point of feeling. To me, practice is a means of sense-making, and of being-in-the-world."
—Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine)
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—Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Jessica Dimmock
"They’re in a lot of ways trapped not only in male bodies but in male identities. [...]They did a really good job of putting a masculine identity on themselves, because that’s what was dictated. At Esprit, they’re taking it off."
—Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine)
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—Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Lauren Greenfield
"The effect of seeing affluent lifestyles on television has been proven to a) make people think more people have that kind of lifestyle than really do, so it’s a distorted view of what’s normal but b) it also stimulates desire for those things."
—Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute)
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—Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute)
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Interview with Sage Sohier
"It’s easier not to be so beautiful, to be able to move through life a bit under the radar, and to be able to focus on what you feel really matters, rather than have to deal with the distraction of other people’s intense focus on your appearance."
—Sage Sohier (GUP Magazine)
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—Sage Sohier (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Lake Montgomery
“It’s weird, though, because I’m not doing this for fame and glory. I don’t want to do it for myself, I want to be a vehicle. I want to be the vehicle through which speaks little whispers of God.”
—Lake Montgomery (Riding the Dragon)
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—Lake Montgomery (Riding the Dragon)
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Interview with Lisa Johnston
“I’m probably one of the luckiest people in the world to have a job that is absolutely fulfilling. It's super exhausting, it’s very demanding, but it’s extremely rewarding.”
—Lisa Johnston (Riding the Dragon)
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—Lisa Johnston (Riding the Dragon)
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Interview with Amy Webb
“The future is our shared responsibility in the present.”
—Amy Webb (John Adams Institute)
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—Amy Webb (John Adams Institute)
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Interview with Elizabeth Heyert
"Somebody wants the experience of completely giving up responsibility – in every way. [...] You give it up, and you can go to this place they call ‘subspace’, which is somewhere in your head apart from your body."
—Elizabeth Heyert (GUP Magazine)
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—Elizabeth Heyert (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Mandy Smith
“I guess with any creative person, you’ve always got this bombardment of insecurity when you’re analyzing your own work. So there’s always some sort of insecurity with it, but that’s what pushes you to your next project because you’ve never really solved the use of the blank piece of paper.”
—Mandy Smith (TEDxAmsterdam)
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—Mandy Smith (TEDxAmsterdam)
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Interview with Coralie Vogelaar
"When an image is duplicated a lot, then we recognize it as an archetype, so then we duplicate it a lot. And then because it’s duplicated a lot, it’s being viewed a lot, and this has an influence in our brain."
—Coralie Vogelaar (GUP Magazine)
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—Coralie Vogelaar (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Lera Boroditsky
"By the time you see the world, you’re seeing it through the lens of your language."
—Lera Boroditsky (John Adams Institute, 2016)
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—Lera Boroditsky (John Adams Institute, 2016)
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Interview with Stephen Shore
"I wanted a picture that was more the visual equivalent of speaking."
—Stephen Shore (GUP Magazine)
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—Stephen Shore (GUP Magazine)
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Interview with Jay McInerney
“We all have to deal with the deepest and most difficult questions in life – no matter how nice our wardrobe is, or no matter how good our education is, or no matter how packed our social schedule is.”
—Jay McInerney (John Adams Institute)
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—Jay McInerney (John Adams Institute)
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Interview with Pierre Liebaert
“It’s sad to see people whose lives think for them, instead of the inverse. We have to think our life, we have to build it, we have to sculpt life. And time. We have to do something interesting with time.”
—Pierre Liebaert (GUP Magazine)
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—Pierre Liebaert (GUP Magazine)
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More Interviews
An extended list of my published interviews, sorted A-Z by surname
- Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute, July 2017)
- Miles Aldridge (GUP Magazine, September 2017)
- Adam Alter (John Adams Institute, April 2017)
- Christopher Anderson (GUP Magazine, June 2013)
- Michael Arfken (Riding the Dragon, June 2018)
- Jeremy Bailenson (John Adams Institute, March 2018)
- Roger Ballen (GUP Magazine, May 2015)
- Lera Boroditsky (John Adams Institute, September 2016)
- Mike Brodie (GUP Magazine, February 2015)
- Kate Anderson Brower (John Adams Institute, March 2016)
- Christopher Bucklow (GUP Magazine, February 2017)
- Lewis Bush (GUP Magazine, September 2017)
- Antoine d'Agata (GUP Magazine, September 2012)
- Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam, June 2014)
- Jurre den Haan (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2015)
- Matthew Desmond (John Adams Institute, July 2018)
- Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine, June 2017)
- Natan Dvir (GUP Magazine, November 2016)
- Brian Finke (GUP Magazine, October 2016)
- Megan M. Garr (KNiK, September 2013)
- Bruce Gilden (GUP Magazine, June 2015)
- Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute, May 2017)
- Yingguang Guo (Riding the Dragon, June 2018)
- Elizabeth Heyert (GUP Magazine, November 2016)
- Pablio Inirio (GUP Magazine, January 2015)
- Ina Jang (GUP Magazine, September 2016)
- Lisa Johnston (Riding the Dragon, February 2017)
- Andrew Keen (John Adams Institute, May 2018)
- Emily Kinni (GUP Magazine, March 2014)
- Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine, May 2017)
- Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute, October 2017)
- David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine, February 2018)
- Alvaro Laiz (GUP Magazine, October 2015)
- Pierre Liebaert (GUP Magazine, May 2016)
- Karen Marshall (GUP Magazine, November 2015)
- Steve McCurry (GUP Magazine, November 2013)
- Jay McInerney (John Adams Institute, August 2016)
- Maurice Mikkers (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2015)
- Lake Montgomery (Riding the Dragon, March 2017)
- Peninah Musyimi (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2014)
- Anja Niemi (GUP Magazine, February 2017)
- Bertil Nilsson (GUP Magazine, December 2011)
- Karoliina Paatos (GUP Magazine, June 2016)
- Parneet Pal (Riding the Dragon, July 2018)
- Chantel Paul (GUP Magazine, November 2014)
- Anders Petersen (Video) (Eyes in Progress, May 2015)
- Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine, May 2017)
- Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine, August 2017)
- Louis Porter (GUP Magazine, July 2014)
- Kim Preston (GUP Magazine, January 2013)
- Jin Qin (GUP Magazine, December 2017)
- Noah Rabinowitz (GUP Magazine, September 2015)
- Doug Rickard (GUP Magazine, November 2015)
- Anne Ruygt (GUP Magazine, September 2014)
- Anne-Sophie Schürmann (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2015)
- Stephen Shore (GUP Magazine, August 2016)
- Russell Shorto (John Adams Institute, January 2018)
- Shayne Smart (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2015)
- Mandy Smith (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2016)
- Sage Sohier (GUP Magazine, February 2017)
- Scot Sothern (GUP Magazine, August 2013)
- Matthew Swartz (GUP Magazine, May 2015)
- Paris Taghizadeh (GUP Magazine, September 2014)
- Jonathan Taplin (John Adams Institute, January 2018)
- Giorgio Taraschi (GUP Magazine, November 2014)
- Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine, February 2018)
- Arjen van Veelen (John Adams Institute, June 2018)
- Teun van der Heijden (GUP Magazine, May 2012)
- Nikolas Ventourakis (GUP Magazine, November 2013)
- Ad Vingerhoets (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2015)
- Coralie Vogelaar (GUP Magazine, September 2016)
- Lynda Waggoner (John Adams Institute, April 2016)
- Albert Watson (Haute Photographie, November 2016)
- Amy Webb (John Adams Institute, February 2017)
- Xiaoxiao Xu (TEDxAmsterdam, November 2016)
- Patrick Zachmann (Video) (Eyes in Progress, October 2014)