Interview with Bruce Gilden
“Well, look, the idea of doing pictures is not to have arguments, ok?”
—Bruce Gilden (GUP Magazine)
—Bruce Gilden (GUP Magazine)
Do Drones Dream of Simulated Celebrities?
"Perhaps an integral part of human vision is the power of, and inclination towards, deception."
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
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 Katherine Oktober Matthews on Life Framer (Urban Life)
“And I’ve been frustrated sometimes for want of a role model that simply isn’t there, but a big part of coming-of-age as an artist is realizing that very terrifying thing: you cannot follow anybody else anymore.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer, 2014)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer, 2014)
Interview with Katherine Oktober Matthews on TEDxAmsterdam
“It’s good to have critics, because they force you to work harder and make your case.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
Interview for Toy Tokyo
"Sometimes my friends tell me stories of things that I know never happened – but how can you prove whose memory is correct? Photographs don’t prove anything because they’re not facts, they’re narratives."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Toy Tokyo, 2014)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Toy Tokyo, 2014)
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)
(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)
(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)
—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)