Lauren Winkelman is a photographer I found through another photographer I found through the West Coast Polaroid scene.

Her photos got style, and so does she. But beyond that, I didn’t know all that much about her.

Which made her a perfect subject for an interview. So here we go: (more…)

A wee bit ago I and my friend Ian came up with the idea of interviewing strangers in the park. A way of talking lots of pictures and doing lots of interviews, all at once.

So after advertising on a few websites, I photographed and interviewed anyone willing to show up.

It quickly dawned on me that a full interview would be cost prohibitive, so I came up with a questionnaire:

Here now, the people who sat down to write up some answers: (more…)

Audrey Kawasaki is an amazing artist whose work I’ve been aware of for years, but whom I only met a short while ago. Matter of fact, I was half-convinced she was imaginary, the figment of my friend Bryan’s fevered brain.

This is not true. She is real. And awesome. So I went and asked her some questions. Here we go: (more…)

Zoetica Ebb is an Internet Superstar, and it has been a wild pleasure getting to know her. Model, writer, photographer, she’s a triple threat.

No, really, she’s threatened me before. Very intimidating, this one.

It was a no-brainer when I first started thinking about interviews to do one with Zoetica, the lady’s the real deal.

So here we go: (more…)

Jim Lucio was one of my first Polaroid heroes, and getting to meet him a few years ago really showed me how awesome the internet can be. We’ve been friends ever since, but will one day become the bitterest of enemies, fighting over the last packs of Polaroid film in the world.

But until that day, interview!!!

Here we go: (more…)

Linn Heidi Stokkedal is a young photographer from Norway, whom I met when she and her cohorts did a cross country road trip through the U.S. last summer.

Here now, her thoughts on photography, art school, me, and how modeling is like being furniture: (more…)

Katie West is a Toronto-based photographer, and one of the first photographers whose work I saw and fell in love with on Flickr. Since that time, two years ago, when I first saw her work, we’ve become great friends, and I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at her views on her art. So here we go: (more…)

I was gonna write up my thoughts on the election, but I’m lazy.

So I asked my mom to do it, instead:

Debra (San Diego)
November 4th, at around 8:40 pm PST, I had an out of body experience. Barak Obama was declared the 44th President Elect of the United States of America.

I am a long-time activist and a proponent of civil rights, women’s rights and human rights. I believed in the utopian premise of one world, one people as a free thinker in the 1960’s and worked to call attention to the cause. I took to the streets to oppose the war in Vietnam. In the 1970’s, I fell in love with a man whose family emigrated from Panama when he was seven and whose roots were Jamaican, Haiitian and African. (more…)

I was gonna write up a piece on how I felt right after the election was over, but I’m lazy.

So instead I went and asked some folks I know. Here’s what they had to say:

Leiana (New York)
“Your President Elect, Barak Obama”….and then we were all suddenly on the street, great masses of us, spilling out of bars and apartments and corner bodegas, cutting through the tense silence with screams and cries. I hugged everyone within arms distance including the crackheads who live on my sidewalk and the gangsters and the yuppies and the hipsters. Tearfully and joyfully we spun each other around and whispered “we did it, we did it” into each others ears. This was my new America. I called my fiance to tell him that we could think about having babies now, this new brave world was finally a place I could call home.

Two hours later, after Jermaine had been aggressively following me around the bar for an hour begging me to go home with him and “make a Barak Obabma,” and insisting that “my man din’t have to know” and the bartender asked me to call 911 cause a “mexican had a knife” outside, I reached into my purse and quietly took my birth control pill. It is my new America, but we have a lot of work left to do. (more…)

Kevin Mason, better known on the internet as Dark Daze, is a UK-based photographer I’ve been following for a few years now. I’ve been reading a bunch of interviews with photographers, thought it’d be fresh to interview Kevin, see where his head’s at, what makes him tick. So here we go: (more…)