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infinitely more powerful than
pretty bokeh and sharpness.
Which photographer do you look
up to and why?
How long have you been in the
This is a really difficult thing to
Field of Photography?
I started taking photos around five answer, because I’m so involved
in so many different genres from
years ago.
so many different time periods. I
think the most powerful thing any
What initially interested you into
photograph can achieve is to
photography?
I’ve always wanted to make art, grant viewers a perspective that
but I’ve never been very good at challenges their perceptions,
and Brandon Stanton of Humans
traditional mediums. I have
of New York epitomises that. I
dabbled in painting and music
admire him so much for his vision
and crocheting and just about
and compassion and ability to
every other creative endeavencompass the human
or you can imagine, and I have
condition.
been hopeless at all of them.
Photography was this window
What genre of photography are
that finally
you most interested in?
allowed me to create some
tangible, visual evidence of how I I love photojournalism, and that
comes in so many forms. It’s a
perceive things.
mother holding her child’s dead
body in a warzone, it’s lovers
What would you say is more
holding hands in the street, it’s
important Good Knowledge/
the way a city looked fifty years
Good Equipment?
Knowledge, undoubtedly. Some ago, it’s anything that is contextual and tells a story. Those are
of my favourite photographs
have been shot on disposable film the kinds of photos I love most to
look at and dream of creating.
and iPhones. Good
composition and subject matter is