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More about Kimbra Audrey
I worked as a model for nearly a decade and was frustrated with the superficial images constantly created of me. I began taking self-portraits during that time as a way to create images of how I actually saw myself. I wanted to create authentic, honest, raw images, and shooting on film and not retouching my photos was the best way for me to do that.
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More about Peter Ydeen
I feel my means of expression, photography, found me, rather than me finding it. I studied painting and sculpture as a student, and coming out of school, I mostly did box art, collage and watercolor. It was only after a lifetime of working with other forms of art, as well as coming through the humbling experience of selling antique Chinese, African and Tibetan art, that I slowly ventured into photography.
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More about Maxi Magnano
I think it was out of boredom. I felt I was wasting time every day at a job that I didn’t like at all. It happened to be next to a Nikon store, so I just bought a digital camera and started learning. I had no idea at the time that I was making such an important decision. It actually defined my life.
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More about Henry Tyson
The alteration of the scenes is the culmination of a couple of years of practical experimentation in my work, and ultimately the developing philosophy behind it. I think personal expression, or lack of, is a defining and important feature in all art forms. I’ve grown to accept the tendency I have to present a part of myself in my work.
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More about Sergio Camplone
After dedicating the first part of my life to music, I became interested in photography, I studied photography at the ‘c.f.p. Riccardo Bauer’ in Milan. I graduated in 2000. I think photography chose me.
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More about Maximilian Mann
Photography is a very good way for me to meet people and learn from them. Not from a desk, but in real life. I can meet people I would never have met without photography. This has led to an incredible number of great encounters.
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More about Michael Ernest Sweet
Photography was always in the mix too. I began photographing when I was a teenager with my aunt’s Pentax K1000. My aunt, Susan, went to art school and she had a darkroom in our family home. Photography kind of just stuck with me from there.
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More about Charis Kirchheimer
I always have loved art; it was a matter of finding something to express myself where words were insufficient. I enjoy painting but I find my painting childish. Writing also interested me but I never found a way with words. It therefore felt natural to choose photography since it can express much more than words, for me in any case.
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More about Gnot Guedin
Through comic strips. They made an impression on me at a young age. Drawing followed on naturally after that. Then comic strips again.
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More about Violette Nell
I was introduced to this means of expression later in life during a long period of convalescence. I had never really had an opportunity to get into photography; it was an art that I observed from a distance. I made the most of my time convalescing to get to grips with photography on my own by reading books and to practice, mainly through self-portraits.
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More about Mert Acar
I studied graphic design at college and took photography classes, but they were commercially oriented. Then I started an MFA programme in painting and decided to use my photography education through the perspective of fine art.
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More about Michele Vittori
I have always been interested in visual arts spanning from painting to conceptual art. At the age of 27 I took up photography and I never stopped.