Laura Makabresku

She has hair like not many people and a look many men (and women) would die for. She takes her photos in a not common way - dead animals, woods, herself and her Man. It seems like she would like to capture her inside world she lives in, seems like she has a message for us - I don´t need your world, I have my own.
The tones in which her photographs usually are is so unique you could say, out of seeing one of that pictures, it is taken by her. You would hardly find someone so themselves as she is, with such a strong personality (I would say) she has. And that is exactly what you see in her photos.




Read the good-night story and let her take you far from here:

1. What is your real name? Do you wish you had any other name? Or did you ever use a pseudonym?
- my real name is laura kamila kansy. laura makabresku is my alias which I use since I can remember and which has a great value for me ("makabresku" is sth terrifying and grotesque simultaneously like some nightmares. I try to make my works in the way so they would remind dreams - strange and with unrest). "Kamila" is my "bright" side, "Laura" is the other one, "dark" (it's connected with schizophrenia - cutting off from another personality it's easier to interpret some of behaviours, but it's a long story).

2. Where do you live and for how long? Your wish-I-lived-in country?
- since my birth I live in poland (so it's 22 years). it's a very misterious land, which I link with witches that lives in forests. there's a lot of dark magic here. since I went to study, I live in Cracow (it's an old Polish capital city) - full of old apartment houses, hackneys and pigeons.

3. A little about your art - when did you find out you like photography? What was your first photo ever taken?
- I've discovered photography thanks to my Lad. It was him, who gave me my first camera when we met. I've started to gather photos to our own library to have a keepsake from places where we went and tracks that we left on our skins. the first photo I took was him. it was a long walk, when we drank wine and kissed each other.

4. Do you produce any other kind of art?
- before I've started with photography I had other passion - literature. since I am 13 I write poems. they are generally love poems, erotic. I would like to publish a book in future - autobiography, in which I would tell a story about Laura and Kamila (about schizophrenia).

5. Share a few things you love and you couldn´t live without, please.
- I love music, poetry, white wine (traminer graft), rose milk for body and darszan scent. the only thing that I could not live without is my Lad. anyway.. we want to die togehter but it's... a different story.

6. And a few things you can´t stand?
- cold in my feets, lack of sensitivity, lack of emotions.

7. Where do you go for inspiration?
- I'm inspired by sensitivity and darkness. I think that much of my inspiration I obtain from my sickness (or maybe should I say a gift rather than sickness?)

8. Do you have your favourite photographers?
- favourites? I can't tell now. there was a time when I hold works of paolo roversi in great esteem. today I'm bored with them, I have a felling that he stoped and discontinued his development. I do admire some photographers from flickr but it's too many of them to count.

9. Do you have any favourite animal? Is there any reason why?
- I love owls. maybe because they are symbol of death and darkness. they are connected with forests which unrests with their secrets. I like foxes too. anyway.. I have in my home plenty of dead animals from my grandfather. sometimes I feel that I grew up beside death.

10. ...
I don't have anything in common with myself

Find Laura at her flickr and deviantArt.

Ezgi Polat

Ezgi Polat is a photographer who I´ve known about for a few years now. I have always been fascinated by her personal and original style with which she takes her photos - most of the time on film. Details she captures might seem ordinary and boring stuff of everyday life to someone but when she takes her camera and makes it "forever", it seems like it is a completely new thing for us to see. A few (master)pieces of hers - and since she doesn´t want to say anything about herself, it is the only thing that is left for you to do.


You can find her at her flickr | blog | deviantArt | website .

Erica Lucy

This lovely photographer has caught my attention with her originality, expressed in many different ways. I find her interesting because behind every of her photos, there is a story that talks the whole time I look at it. For example, at the picture you see below (girl-boy) you can feel so much emotions even thought they don´t move or talk. How she captures moments is amazing.
See some of her artworks:

(this one is my favourite.. I could watch it for hours and still see something lovely)


Read the artist´s words!

What´s your real name? Do you wish you had any other name? Or did you ever use a pseudonym?
- My real name is Erica Lucy. When I was young I hated my last name because my nickname was "I love Lucy". I wanted to change it but now I kind of find it quirky and fun. :)

Where do you live and for how long? Your wish-I-lived-in country?
- I'm originally from Mississippi, I grew up in the southern United States and although I love it it can be very boring as I'm from a rural area. For the past four years I've been living in Philadelphia for college and I loved it! I'm hoping to move back once I start graduate School. There are to many countries I wished I lived in but I really love Japan, France, and Sweden.

A little about your art - when did you find out you like photography? What was your first photo ever taken?
- I've always been interested in art. And I decided I wanted to work in photography when I was very young. I haven't a clue when I first started taking photos but I was always the one taking pictures with the family camera, so there are many strange photos in our family photo albums. :)

What equipment do you use?
- Digital: Canon 30D with a 50 mm lens
Film: I have a Zenit-e, Canon eos k-2, Fed-5, and Yashica medium format camera. I've also used a Toyo 4x5 large format camera and a Hasselblad but they were school equipment. And I can't say for sure what the lens sizes are for any of them though sorry.

Do you produce any other kind of art?
- I've done everything. But I really love screen printing, drawing, pottery, book making, and mix media. In high school I even used to make puppets out of found objects. So I guess I've tried a lot of different things.

Share a few things you love and you couldn´t live without, please.
- I guess my cameras and maybe my silly boyfriend. :)

And a few things you can´t stand?
- Ignorant people are very hard to deal with.

Where do you go for inspiration?
- I'm very observant so I spend a lot of time just watching the world around me, also I work at a natural science museum so I'm always finding inspiration there. I'm also very influenced by other photographers and art in general.

Do you have your favourite photographers?
- Moriyama Daido, Alec Soth, and Nan Goldin are all very different but wonderful in their own way.

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- I'm a wallflower.

You can find Erica at flickr and at her blog. Give her some support she truly deserves!

I have been thinking about doing this for a long time now. I don´t even know where I got this idea, it just came to me and puf, here we are. I feel like there are artists that really need more attention because they work hard and they are more than undervalueded. This comes from my passion for photography and art in general. Let´s support those who deserve it!
Very first artist to appear here, is coming in a few days. I´ll try to do my best with this whole thing.
Keep fingers crossed for me, please.