Interview with Roger Ballen
“The pictures also should be like a truth or an essence, and things that are truths or essences are also difficult to talk about; they just are.”
—Roger Ballen (GUP Magazine)
—Roger Ballen (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Mike Brodie
"All I wanted to do was move, if I wasn’t moving I wasn’t doing and I would get sad and lose direction, always moving."
—Mike Brodie (GUP Magazine)
—Mike Brodie (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Pablo Inirio
“I don’t want it going out of the darkroom unless I’m happy with it, you know? I don’t want to give people work that’s not up to my standards, and my standards are high. I’m tough on myself, I think I overdo it.”
—Pablo Inirio (GUP Magazine)
—Pablo Inirio (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Patrick Zachmann
"I don't think now it's a question of documenting the world as it is, because basically we know how it is. [...]The point is not just to document, it's the way you document and the interactive process you develop between you and the world."
—Patrick Zachmann (Eyes in Progress)
—Patrick Zachmann (Eyes in Progress)
Alain de Botton: Art as Therapy
“Why should art always be so silent, always be so meek in its desire to change the world…? I think it’s a disaster to leave it so that the only people trying to change existence are large corporations and bigoted polemical groups."
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
Interview with Alain de Botton
“The museum is clearly not a perfect environment to enjoy the deeper meanings of the art it collects. It is like a filing cabinet which holds love letters. We are grateful to the cabinet, but we know the love letters were not made to be read or held in such circumstances.”
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
Interview with Emily Kinni
“I couldn’t escape knowing and feeling the original purpose of the rooms, and the unavoidable tension of what the space had been, compared to what surrounded me.”
—Emily Kinni (GUP Magazine)
—Emily Kinni (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Nikolas Ventourakis
“One ends up feeling excluded, standing outside a window looking in, fantasising about being part of the group. And being part of the group is important.”
—Nikolas Ventourakis (GUP Magazine)
—Nikolas Ventourakis (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Steve McCurry
“You still have to work and struggle. Effort and reward—they’re all intertwined. You can’t really look at struggle as necessarily a negative thing. Or work. The word ‘work’ can seem kind of like drudgery, but you can’t look at it like that.”
—Steve McCurry (GUP Magazine)
—Steve McCurry (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Megan M. Garr
"That’s part of the object of it, it should move through hands. As many hands as possible."
—Megan M. Garr (KNiK)
—Megan M. Garr (KNiK)