Christmas in Astoria
Astoria knows class, Christmas 2013. Classy class.
Selfie-Obsession
"What I find interesting is all the attention that various organized media are heaping towards selfies, repeating ad nauseam the fact that the Oxford dictionary named ‘selfie’ their word of the year. Who gives a shit?"
(GUP Magazine, 2013)
Horizon Destination
“This wanting, this hole in the soul of our being, is one of the great defining features of the human condition. And images capitalise on it, exacerbate it. They feed us with more desires before we even know we’ve consumed them.”
(GUP Magazine, 2013)
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)
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)
Portfolio Review – Athens Photo Festival
I’ll be reviewing portfolios on behalf of GUP Magazine at the upcoming Athens Photo Festival on November 2 — if you’re nearby, apply now!
GUP Portfolio Reviews
GUP Magazine is hosting a portfolio review in Amsterdam, in cooperation with Firestarters, on Sept 26. I’m among the reviewers, representing GUP, so if you’re a photographer who fancies kickstarting your work to the next level, go on and register…
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)
Interview with Firestarters (Dutch language)
Firestarters has posted a short interview with me, about the upcoming portfolio review GUP has organized, and the media that photography is presented in. (in Dutch only) Steeds meer fotografen exposeren hun werk online. Een gedwongen keuze of omarming…