Category: Interview

Kyle Scully is one of the best photographers in Vancouver. Here’s our convo.

Tell me a little bit about yourself!

I am 23 years old. I own five bicycles that I ride on a daily basis. I eat pizza. I listen to 60’s rock and I spend most of my time taking photos.

Were you into photography as a kid?

I’ve been taking photos ever since I can remember. As a kid I was living on a really steep street called Long Drive. It was similar to the ones in the movies with a scary name like “Dead Man’s Curve” or “Skull Smasher Hill”. Anyways, my friends and I used to race down the hill on our skateboards and bikes jumping off ramps. Taking photos of this craziness is how I first got into shooting photos.

I have never been to Vancouver, but it seems like a pretty rad place.  How would you describe the city?

For me, Vancouver has everything I could want in a city: nice beaches, mountains, relatively warm climate, and it’s easy to get around by bicycle. Yes, it does rain a ton. And yes, it can be depressing at times but as soon as the summer rolls around you forget all about the last 6 months of rain.

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Poland-based Lukasz Wierzbowski is one talented photographer. Here’s our short conversation about photography!

Tell me a little bit about yourself?

Tall, blonde hair, blue eyes. 27 years old photographer.

Where were you born, and where are you currently located?

I was born and raised in a small town called Lubliniec (famous for a pretty good mental health hospital, women’s prison and military base). Few years ago I moved to Wroclaw to study social psychology and immediately have fallen in love with the city.

When did you pick up your first camera?

My father introduced me to photography when I was around 12. As far as I remember he tried to teach me how to us one of those heavy Russian rangefinder cameras. Although I was totally fascinated by the mechanism it was a way too complicated for to operate at that time so I quickly switched to my moms point-and-shot camera.

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Interview with Beijing-based photographer Jeremy O’Sullivan. This guy has got a great eye for photography. The photos below will prove this statement.

Thank you very much for doing this interview Jeremy, especially because you can’t even reach the site, since all WordPress blogs have been blocked in China, as you mentioned. What’s that like, not being able to reach certain sites, since China has blocked them? Here in Canada nothing is blocked (as far as I know).

Well there are always weaknesses to any fortification (in this case ‘the great chinese fire wall’ being the intangible line in the sand), so it’s pretty common practice to access blocked sites in china via a proxy server. They can be a bit of pain to use but at least it rules out a total information void.

In saying that however it is a little disturbing how far these recent blockades are going now. I think Flickr might well be on it’s last legs in china, farm 3 & 5 have been blocked in Beijing for the last 6 weeks or so. The recent isolationist trend of the Chinese government (in regards to the online censorship of foreign sites) is not a cool ploy. The world needs a visible china and likewise the people of china need a continued opening up of dialogue with all of the rest of us.

Anyways, tell me a little bit about yourself!

New Zealand is my home, I grew up in a wooden house with roots stinging through its walls. Later my family moved to the seaside and penguin’s replaced the roots as our inner wall companions. I got a degree in sculpture and I tried my hand at art making for a while before falling into a more or less sedated life as a tape machine operator at a post production company. Through a somewhat odd tale of religiosity & riot I ended up tumbling my way to Beijing. That was about 3 years ago, currently I’m teaching kids language skills and marching noise skills at the aerospace institute. Photography is something that has grown out of these dynamics like a pole from a flag.

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