I first met Michael Nguyen on a beautiful spring day in Tokyo, the flowers in bloom. We were in a Shibuya park on Meiji Dori, where an anti-nuke rally climaxed in a costumed hippie drum offensive, bursting in the dappled light. If I remember correctly, Mike had a can of beer and a cigarette (he [...]
In the summer of 1995, I was 19 years old, living on my own a few blocks from the sea in Isla Vista, a suburb of Santa Barbara, adjunct to the city’s university. Though I had summer school classes and a job, it was a good time for me. Romantically, I was unattached, my bout [...]
The Maya, Hindu, Hopi, Summarians and the ancient Greeks all have similar beliefs–that there are 4 or 5 stages of the world and that we are either in the 4th or the 5th. The Sikhs think that we will go from the 4th to the 5th world on (or around) December 21st, 2012–though some place [...]
“Live an interesting life and you’ll take interesting pictures.” – Jim O’Connell You know the photographer Arnaud De Grave from such HESO projects as the interview with Christiania documentary photographer Charlotte Østervang as well as his in-depth gastronomic reportage on French Truffles and the simple art of Gnocchi. Of course. The French-born, raised and educated [...]
Third-party marketing content, Wikipedia-plagiarized articles, hateful commentary, Fox News–it’s easy to be negative about the internet. It’s also impossible to deny its positive impact. Whole photographic communities have formed due to the largesse of Flickr and Instagram, to name a few. Yet the net that spreads wide also has large holes. Many talented, young artists [...]
HESO: Who are you and where are you from? Give us some background please. Julia: I was born an only child in an ordinary Soviet family from Kazakhstan. I graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and worked as an editor in glossy magazines for a long time. I had no dream of becoming a professional [...]
HESO: When did you first pick up a camera? Edward: Very late on, but I’m not looking back. I’m looking to keep taking my photos to the next level and to move all my old pictures just as far round the world as they can go. Sometimes I look back at old photos and think [...]
In the old days, when a man was building his credibility as an artist, he did so rather anonymously. There might be a break here or there in this or that magazine or fashion catalogue but it would be difficult for this person to build a public name outside the small circle of his metropolitan [...]
In part VII of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Pinhole Holga Panoramic. Part I, II, III, IV, V and VI are viewable here.
Dunja Evers, from Hamburg, studied under Arnulf Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna before bouncing about Marseille and Berlin during the 1980s, publishing series of films and photographs. She moved to Dusseldorf in 1995, where she began lecturing at Technische Universität Dortmund, before acting as visiting professor of photography at the University [...]
In part VI of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Pinhole Holga Panoramic. Part I, II, III, IV, V and VII are viewable here.
In part V of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Bronica Zenza. Part I, II, III, IV, VI and VII are viewable here.
In part IV of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Horizon S3 Pro Panoramic. Part I, II, III, V, VI and VII are viewable here.
Patrick Gookin is a photographer from Los Angeles, CA by way of New Hampshire and Tokyo, collaborating with the poet Gabe Rothschild who writes titles and verses to go along with the images. In his own words, “We try to capture the absurd realities of living, especially those that come along with being an visitor [...]
