5/ What do you think of the actual state of
photography?
Shitty, and it's going to stay that way for a while. There are too
many images nowadays, it's not photography's fault it's more the
relation we have to images these days. Pictures have become very
accessible, through phones, editing tools, printers. Not to
mention we are constantly thrown images, TV, internet, social
networks, we're constantly bombarded, and it's just too much. We
don't take time to look at images, or even make images anymore,
and everyone thinks they are a photographer, truth to be told real
photographers aren't that many. We have desacralized photography
that it has become something common. It's becoming complicated and
it's not going to stop. I think it's primordial to teach people to
see how to look at images.
6/ If you could give some advice to new comers what
will it be?
As a teacher I encounter lots of young photographers who idealise
photography. They either want to do travel photography, which
let's face it is slowly dying because of instagram, or concert,
model photography. And if there is nothing wrong with that, I try
to explain to them, that even if there are solutions, it's going
to be very difficult. You can't go out and think you will do what
you want and become famous, it's going to be hard work and you
will end up doing stuff you hate, that you will have to balance
between doing what you like (if you can) and doing services for
clients and it costs time, energy, not that much sleep, for maybe
little results, or even income.
But again what is primordial is how to look at images first, and
if you want to live off on photography it will be very dififcult.