"I came to the understanding pretty quickly that social media and the internet put into place a real predatory dynamic, where basically it motivated people to take video of other people to put up on YouTube to get shares, likes or comments."
—Doug Rickard (GUP Magazine)
“Normally, in public, I wouldn’t really cry, or I wouldn’t show you, because I don’t know you. But if I can capture the tear, and image it, and tell a little bit about the moment, I open up and I can maybe connect with you without actually crying in public.”
—Maurice Mikkers (TEDxAmsterdam)
GUP#50 - The Big Ten Issue (August 2016). Cover by Christto & Andrew.
“Emotions are never caused by external events but rather by how we appraise certain events.”
—Ad Vingerhoets (TEDxAmsterdam)
I spent the morning of November 13, 2015 in a police station in Paris, reporting the theft of my wallet in a pickpocketing the night before. It was boring: sitting in a semi-broken chair in a bureaucratic waiting room, filling…
“I started to realize that there was a language that women share with each other and oftentimes it’s really hard to describe. And so I thought, well, if it’s so hard to describe, then maybe photographs will really articulate it.”
—Karen Marshall (GUP Magazine)
“You never know when you’ll need a favour from a tiger.”
—Álvaro Laiz (GUP Magazine)
“If you sit with the discomfort long enough, it can transform with effort into something else. For example, ecstasy. For example, liberation. For me, what my body brews when percolating over these particular images long enough is transcendence of self.”
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
One of my favourite people of the photography world, Nikolas Ventourakis. Taken in Arles, 2015.