Charlotte Boeyden

Photos I found in her flickr gallery really got to me. Expressive, impressive. The pureness with which she captures (innocent) beautiful sensitive moments is what makes them breathe on you.



The artist´s story:

1. First of all, how did you get to photography and what was your very first photo taken?
- I always had a certain sensibility for images and one day last year I just decided to go out and try it myself. I took my first self portrait. And I basically never stopped taking photos since.

2. What equipment do you use?
- Right now I just use an old canon from the seventies. Which is not even mine, though I pretend that it is.

3. Where do you live? Do you wish you lived somewhere else? (if yes, why so?)
- I'm from Antwerp, Belgium but at the moment I am studying/living in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
I can think of lots of places where I would like to live. It's a bit of a contradiction, really. As a city girl I would love to live in Paris or Berlin, but as a photographer I dream of the most beautiful places in nature. The most versatile place would be my dream place.

4. Your favourite photographer/painter/film-maker?
- As for the first two: I have tons. I can't name them all and I can't choose. But my favorite film-maker is Sofia Coppola. I don't mind that being a cliché.

5. Describe the place where you are right now for us, please.
- It's my workspace and it's awfully messy. I just had evaluations at school. To give you an impression of the things on my table: a camera, a printer, a scanner, teacups, film rolls, crochet needles, yarn, a bottle of wine, a soldering iron, a drill, books, photos, way too many papers, a magazine, a screwdriver and other utensils, an empty cake box (for a cake yet to be baked), etc.
It's quite a big white space with light wooden furniture, most of it made by my boyfriend and me. (read as: he made it all, I just made the rocking chair) A record player, a hamster cage (made by my boyfriend again) with our dearest hamster, lots of books and equipment.

6. What was your last seen movie/exhibition? How did you feel about it?
- The last movie was Danny the world champion, by a book of Roald Dahl. It was a very sweet movie so it made me feel good. The last exhibition was the Graduation Show in my school during dutch design week. It made me feel proud to be in the same school, and also a teeny bit afraid of what's ahead of me.

7. What are a few things you can´t live without?
- My clothes, my camera, my boyfriend and sad but true: my computer.

8. Do you produce any other kind of art?
- I go to a design school so I make a lot of drawings and paintings and I work on different kinds of projects. But I wouldn't categorize them as art. I wouldn't call my photos art either.

9. And the last question - where do you go for inspiration?
- Into the world, with my eyes wide open.

Go take a look at her flickr and show some well-deserved love and feedback. You can also visit her website.

Chiara

She seems to be a beholder of the world. She captures everything around her with a sensitivity people might kill for. Experimenting might take lifes but luckily, it works for her. Her passion for taking pictures of animals is almost the same as her passion for taking pictures of people. And that´s good. Because people are not the only ones.




Here´s the artists life:

1. What’s your real name? Do you wish you had any other name? Or did you ever use a pseudonym?
- My real name is Chiara. In the internet I usually use a pseudonym; most of the time I use “her voices”.

2. Where do you live and for how long? Your wish-I-lived-in country?
- Since my birth I live in Italy, so it’s nineteen years. But there are many countries where I wish I lived. I especially love France, England and Sweden.

3. When did you find out you like photography? What was your first photo ever taken?
- I've discovered photography thanks to my father. I started taking photographs about 3 years ago. The first photos I’ve taken was of summer holidays.

4. What equipment do you use?
- I take photos with a Canon 450D. Sometimes I use my father’s film camera, a Nikkormat T3.

5. Do you produce any other kind of art?
- Unfortunately not.

6. Is there anything you couldn’t live without?
- The people I love. Then music, books, cats and photography. And a phon.

7. Is there something you really can’t stand?
- Ignorance, superficiality, egocentrism, humidity.

8. Where do you go for inspiration?
- I'm influenced by other photographers, art and cinema, the world around me, music, literature.

9. Do you have your favourite photographers?
- Sam Taylor-Wood, Lasse Hoile, Francesca Woodman, Robert Doisneau, Federica Simoni, Elizaveta Porodina and many more.

10. What is your favourite thing to do?
- To stay with people I love.

11. If you were a thing what would it be?
- It would be a cup of tea. Reserved and warm.

Show some love to her at her flickr.

(And if you know some artists who definitelly deserve our attention, please let me know at laylarouge@yahoo.com and I will take a look for sure.)

Sirbion

I don´t think I am going to say anything to this man. Just.. please, be kind to his english, he really tried. And you don´t t need any language for his photographs, so let´s break the language barrier.


His words:

1. What´s your real name? Do you wish you had any other name? Or did you ever use a pseudonym?
- My name is Alexander. I like my name. Vinternete I use a pseudonym - Sirbion.

2. Where do you live and for how long? Your wish-I-lived-in country?
- I live in Russia in the city of Voronezh. Always wanted to live in Finland, I really like this country.

3. When did you find out you like photography? What was your first photo ever taken?
- I began to seriously pursue photography about 2 years ago. My first photograph was a picture of a bee, which I won two competitions.

4. What equipment do you use?
- I filmed the Canon 5D. Sometimes I take pictures on the camera Lubitel-2 and Leica-II, but only for themselves and for pleasure.

5. Do you produce any other kind of art?
- I used to draw, now I just take pictures.

6. Is there anything you couldn´t live without?
- I can not live without my loved one and the weather. I can never resist the opportunity to make a couple of good shots in fine weather, even when I'm busy with other things.

7. Where do you go for inspiration?
- For inspiration, I usually look at art-house films, often with a sad ending. For me, this is the best tutor to be creative.

8. Do you have your favourite photographers?
- I have lots of favorites, such as Nick Lisitsyn, Ruslan Lobanov, Gennady Tarakanov.

You can find Sirbion at his deviantArt and take a look at his whole gallery.

Katerina Dmitrieva

She seems to be somewhere far from here.. not her body, but her mind. She also seems to be living in different time. She is talented and pretty and nice. She captures her world - that is one of the things that really caught my attention when I browsed through her gallery for the first time. And I had to come back and see the photos again. Again. And then once more. In her older works, she captured more of a darkness and gothic stuff. I admit, I am not really into that. But what she captures now totally got me. Sometimes it feels like there is a piece of me hidden somewhere in the picture and as I look at it, it recognizes me and I recognize that and.. we know we exist. She definitely deserves more attention and feedback. Because for her, capturing feelings is not impossible.

(this one is my favourite one.. I always come back to it)

What she says about herself:

1. Do you remember your first experience with photography? How did you get to being a photographer?
- Relatively recently, almost two years ago i started to treat and percieve photography as something artistic. before this it was just chronological recording of life.

2. Your inspiration and ideas - where do you go for them?
- Ideas are mostly evoked by images from inside, sometimes they are insired by photo-works of other photographers, books, films and inspiration comes when you find people you want to shoot and when your inner state corresponds to it.

3. Age means nothing in the game of love - but here we talk about talent and skills - when is your birthday?
- 16.01.1992

4. Where are you from? Where do you live now?
- Originally i'm from Kaliningrad, Russia, but now i live in Minsk, Belarus.

5. Which time of year is your favourite? (meaning spring, summer, autumn, winter)
- Every season is good in its own way, so it's hard to single out one. Still early fall more appeals to me, the time when it's no longer hot like in summer, but not cold yet.

6. What are your favourite things to do?
- In addition to photographing - Creativity, in any form.

7. Who do you admire? If there is someone you could say that about.
- When talking about creativity, it varies a lot for me. i can pick out some authors whose works please my eye all the time. They are Annet Pehrsson ([link]),Oprisko Oleg ([link]),Alexander Veledzimovic ([link]), Levankova Anna([link]),Katia Smuraga ([link])...
On the whole, there are ordinary people who call forth my admiration, but they are not some popular or well-known ones.

8. What equipment do you use? Any reason for that?
- Because i can't afford something better so far.

You can find Katerina at her deviantArt and enjoy more of her photos.

Katherine White

A Russian artist with her real name Ekaterina, who makes an amazing self-portraits. With such a beauty and innocence, she captures every weakness of hers - without any fear to be hurt from the outside. Her softness with which she makes her art is breathtaking. At most of her photos you can see her at the time when she is not really strong, more hurt and afraid - like a little sad kitten. From what I have seen she is a complicated personality and needs much more understanding than she gets.
(But of course she is not only a self-portrait artist, she also takes pictures of nature and the world around. And those photos deserve attention, too.)





Read the artist´s words:

1. Do you wish you had any other name than you have? Or did you ever use a pseudonym?
- I usually use "Kate" in the internet, because I like it too, it's an analog for my real name and it's less complicated. Most of the time I use "cloudnine" as a screen name, I like how it sounds, and I got used to it.

2. Where do you live and for how long? Your wish-I-lived-in country?
- I live in Moscow, Russia, for my whole life. I was born here. I traveled quite a lot, and sometimes I wish to move to another country, but I'm not sure it's possible for me now, as I haven't finished my university yet, and I don't know any ways for immigration.

3. A little about your art - when did you find out you like photography? What was your first photo ever taken? And what equipment do you use?
- I started taking photographs about 6 years ago, with my parents' digital compact, and after some time I realized I liked it, so I asked for a more "professional" camera for my 16th birthday, that's when the real journey started. I've been taking photographs with Nikon D70 for 4 years, and then a year and a half ago I upgraded it with Nikon D90. Sometimes I use film cameras, such as Nikon F80, Olympus XA2, Seagull 4B-I and some other. I'm planning to get some serious medium format, and now I'm in a process of collecting money for it.

4. Do you produce any other kind of art?
- I don't count it as art, but I draw occasionally, also I enjoy knitting and making little notebooks.

5. Share a few things you love and you couldn´t live without.
- I like music and books, does it count? (oh, sure it does, why not?)

6. And a few things you can´t stand?
- I can't stand big noisy crowds, as I'm quite introverted, a little bit antisocial and lone. And many other things.

7. Where do you go for inspiration?
- Right now I'm out of it, but I watch movies, explore new music and look at other photographers' work.

8. Do you have your favourite photographers?
- My favorites are Stephen Shore, Paolo Roversi, Jonathan Leder, Adam Golfer, Joel Sternfeld, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Brouws and others.

9. What is your favourite thing to do?
- To be in some beautiful place and have a camera with me, so I can take a chance in capturing the view.

Give some well-deserved feedback to this great photographer at her flickr and at her lovely blog.