August 2010
8 posts
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ESTELLE HANANIA, 30, PARIS
What attracts you in traditional ceremonies and how did you first have the idea to photographically document them?
I started photographing them in 2006 and never really stopped ever since then. I’m attracted to a feeling of disorientation and excitement that you can find in these kinds of gatherings and costumed traditions. The visual collision between the subject and its background that exists...
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RAFA CASTELLS, 21, BARCELONA
You recently moved to London, why? And how has this move affected your work?
Well to tell you the truth I moved back to Barcelona a few weeks ago. We had no money left, we had to pay the rent, the food, the films and it was too much. We had to move back to Spain but we’re hoping to make money here in order to move somewhere else. I think the main effect London had on my work was that everything...
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MARK PECKMEZIAN, 25, TORONTO
What is the difference between photographs and pictures?
I’m using those words sort of idiosyncratically. When I was first putting together my website I had a lot of difficulty in finding the best way to categorize all of the images that I wanted to include. I decided to err on the side of broadness and use flexible colloquial terms; I was reminded of how Vice magazine used to divide up...
Do graduation shows matter?
© Celeste Hibbert
Even so, both colleges (Central Saint Martins and LCC) are also making the most of the opportunities that the internet offers, with the Saint Martins students creating a website for their final show and the LCC doing the same, plus a Flickr group and Youtube and Twitter pages. Photography students are taking an increasingly business-like approach to final shows, it seems,...
