photography Archives - Page 3 of 5 - Katherine Oktober Matthews

Coralie Vogelaar: Pattern Recognition

September 14, 2016
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"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)

Stephen Shore: What Looking Looks Like

September 1, 2016
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"I wanted a picture that was more the visual equivalent of speaking."
—Stephen Shore (GUP Magazine)

Pierre Liebaert: Kissing Madness

June 28, 2016
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“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)

Interview with Karoliina Paatos

June 23, 2016
Interviews

“Well, the image of a cowboy is basically a young dude. A rascal, a solitary hero. And then I’m showing these two little girls who do exactly as the big cowboys can do. They are so handy and brave."
—Karoliina Paatos (GUP Magazine)

Interview with Doug Rickard

December 2, 2015
Interviews

"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)

Interview with Maurice Mikkers

November 19, 2015
Interviews

“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)

Interview with Álvaro Laiz

October 19, 2015
Interviews

“You never know when you’ll need a favour from a tiger.”
—Álvaro Laiz (GUP Magazine)

Pain Isn’t Pretty

September 29, 2015
Arts & Cultural Analysis, Writing, Writing Highlights

“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)

Picture or It Didn’t Happen

August 17, 2015
Arts & Cultural Analysis, Writing, Writing Highlights

“As uncountable photos of bikinis and cocktails pass by my social networking streams in summer – trophy heads mounted on the wall celebrating the ‘best party ever’, souvenirs marking the sacrifices made at the altar of YOLO – I can’t help but wonder, is there anybody out there still buying into all this?”
(GUP Magazine, 2015)

The Decisive Moment

July 29, 2015
Reviews, Writing, Writing Highlights

"Above and beyond his many iconic photographs, [Henri Cartier-Bresson's] use of a simple phrase transcended into holy verse in the context of photography: the decisive moment."
(GUP Magazine, 2015)