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Street insights with Olivier DUONG

If you like Street Photography, you probably know Inspired Eye. A few years ago, I interviewed Olivier DUONG, one of the co-founders (with Don SPRINGER). The idea was not to make another interview like I did before but just  to ask to Olivier a couple of questions. I’ve never met Olivier in person but I’m pretty sure that he’s a very talkative man with a lot of stories. I hope that one day we’ll be able to chit chat in front of a beer here or elsewhere. Continue reading Street insights with Olivier DUONG

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John Harper revisited

When I first started this Blog in March 2016, I wanted to interview some photographers I really like. I wanted to know more about them, may be just to see that besides the fact that I loved their work, they were just ordinary people like me. I interviewed very interesting people and I kind of gave up on this exercice because I felt like that I was asking everytime the same questions. Lately I wanted to do something different by turning it into some kind of conversation with a friend. I needed my guinea pig and unfornunately for John Harper, he would be the first one. I called this Blog “John Harper revisited” because he already participated to this Blog a few years ago. Like revisiting one’s work, I found it interesting to interview people again a few years after.  Continue reading John Harper revisited

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Looking back : Shooting the beach with the Fuji XE2.

 

 

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J’ai publié ces derniers temps, pas mal d’articles polémiques qui ont fait réagir beaucoup de gens. C’est en tout cas le sentiment que j’ai eu car j’en ai beaucoup parlé avec des photographes de la communauté. Je suis conscient de passer pour le gars haineux qui dézingue à tout va et qui ne fait que critiquer. Je vais être clair là dessus. Ce que j’ai exprimé dans ces Blogs, je le pense réellement. Je ne les ai pas écrit de manière opportuniste comme certains le pensent pour faire parler de moi. Ça fait presque 3 ans que j’ai découvert la Street Photography et aussi tout ce qui gravite autour. La Street Photography c’est ce qui me plaît. Tout le reste (Réseaux sociaux, recherche de reconnaissance , copinage …) n’offre que de la confusion et de la distraction. Beaucoup se focalisent sur “le reste”, moi c’est la rue avant tout. Je n’arrive pas à fermer ma gueule quand je vois certains comportements sur les réseaux sociaux, mais il est inutile aussi de passer pour l’énervé de service …

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Michael Ernest Sweet’s Primary Colors.

 

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3 weeks ago, I had the surprise to find in my mailbox, a courriel from Michael Ernest Sweet. If you follow my Blogs, you know that I really love his work on “The Human Fragment“. I wrote a Blog a year ago when MES stated that he was quitting Street Photography. Well guess what ? He’s back. Kind of … His mail was a response to my Blog written 12 months ago. A very happy surprise. He gave a very insighful interview to Tim Huynh and I urge you to go and read it if you hadn’t already read it (here). Michael accepted to talk with me about his most recent work. Some thoughts on the Ricoh GRD IV, on the Harinezumi camera, on his artistic vision of the medium. Come take a ride with him ! Continue reading Michael Ernest Sweet’s Primary Colors.

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Interview with Youngjae Lim @ NYCSPC.

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It’s been a while since I did not interview photographers on behalf of this blog. And yet I have a long list of people I would like to hear about photography ! Let me introduce Youngjae, a NYC guy I discovered at the time on the World-Street.Photography platform. The cover photo of this article is quite characteristic of his work. Capturing moments. I do not want to enter into an analysis of this one, but everything is there : the content and the form. Despite the large number of characters in the frame, everything is readable. I have the impression to see a scene from the series “The Handmaids Tale”. When I discovered Youngjae at the time, he was only doing B&W. I was amazed by the atmosphere of his photos and elsewhere in the photos he chose, there is one that I prefer. This mysterious hand in the back of the car. Who puts his hand like that in the back of the car ? In a pinch it is often those who drive who have this gesture. In short, I love this picture where the human presence is summarized in this body fragment in the frame. Come and meet Youngjae. Continue reading Interview with Youngjae Lim @ NYCSPC.

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