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Anna Paola GuerraApril FarnumCody CobbDenis ChugunovGuan ZitianJeff SeltzerKate KirkwoodKlaus LeidorfMario DavalosMark Peter DroletMelinda ChanPaola LeonardiPatrick JoustPeter BakerPhillip Kalantzis CopeWilliam Pearce
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Issue 02
Scapes
Why hello there lovely readers!
Welcome to the second edition of PLATFORM Magazine: an online magazine dedicated to sourcing and showcasing photographic talent from all around the
world. For Issue 02 we chose to set the fluid theme of ‘Scapes’, challenging all you budding photographers out there to interpret this however you wished...And what
an exciting range of work has flown our way!
We’re big fans of creativity here at PLATFORM and, let me tell you, we haven't been disappointed in the slightest! It’s an amazing thing to throw a theme out there
into the great wide world and see the range of responses it evokes.
But enough chit-chat...it’s better you see for yourselves...
(One last thing before we let you go ahead and feast your eyes upon Issue 02... Hopefully you’ll all be delighted to hear that we’ve decided to publish the magazine
bi-monthly, rather than quarterly, so you’ll be getting a whopping 6 issues a year instead of 4! ‘Woop woop!’ I hear you cry!)
We’ll let you go now...
Happy looking!
Kerry Grainger,Editor
The PLATFORM Team.www.platform-mag.co.uk
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Jeff Seltzer 42, Los Angeles, California
Photography is... a way for me to show others how I see the world. Or, more accurately, how I want the world to be seen.
[email protected] www.jeffseltzerphotography.comhttp://onlyapicture.tumblr.com/
Cody Cobb28, From Blanchard, LA, lives in Seattle, WA
Photography is... an optical illusion which can arouse emotion.
codycobb.tumblr.com
‘‘I feel like I'm living two separate lives. One as a freelance motion designer and compositor in Seattle, WA and the other as a nomadic wanderer of the west coast of America. I would love to eventually commit to being a full-time nomad.
Mark Peter Drolet40, from Montreal, Quebec, lives in Newmarket, Ontario
Photography is...not always about showing things “as they are”. It is part of our everyday perception of the world, and enables us to hold on to moments, as well as create a sort of historical language that we all have access to. It’s that unpredictable exchange with the
world and how organic the results can be that I find exciting. The hunt, the planning, the happy mistakes—they’re all part of the package and they’re different in so many ways for one
click of the shutter to the next.
That being said, how you look at photography is often as rewarding as the creating of photography. Being a digester of imagery and a keen member of the audience to so much
great work being produced is rewarding stuff. It fuels me to get out there and try new things or build upon common themes that I’ve been tackling for years.
www.mpdrolet.comwww.mpdrolet.tumblr.com
www.flickr.com/photos/mpdrolet1
Anna Paola Guerra43, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Photography is...a retrospective vision of an unthought landscape, an emergence of an unconscious collecting process.
www.annapaolaguerra.comwww.flickr.com/photos/annapaolaguerra
‘‘I think of photography as not belonging just to present tense or the moment you are doing it.
A smell of a place many years ago, music heard somewhere, some words found in a book….
One day this unexpected mix will make sense. All these things will reveal an external landscape.
The photography made today as a retrospective vision of an unthought landscape, past and future, coexisting in this segment of time.’’
Klaus Leidorf55, from Germany, lives in Bavaria
Photography is... the possibility to show the world my view of the reality.
[email protected] www.leidorf.de
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leidorf
Mario Manuel Dávalos Perdomo
34, half Cuban, half Dominican - Born in the Dominican Republic and lives there, in Santo Domingo
Photography is... a way to cheat time. A remembering tool that isolates what we don;t want to remember. It’s the perfect drug for memory-obsessed individuals like myself. The great
thing about nature photography is that the process is as thrilling as the result. Photography is the most beautiful excuse to travel, to ask questions, to harvest curiosity. I see the world
differently after I took photography as a main medium.
[email protected] www.mariodavalos.net
www.mariodavalos.com
‘‘I am trained as a fine artist but I have been working in advertising for 11 years. I am currently CEO of Capital DBG. I wish I could devote all my time to photography. I am planning to do so in 2023.’’
‘‘As I said, I am a painter by training but I just could not get myself back in the studio after such long days in the agency, so nature provided a way to go out, make art and be sane.. sort of.’’
Denis Chugunov23, Barking, London
Photography is... a medium capable of glorifying and denigrating reality.
‘‘A photographer is someone who can hold onto a variation of reality without it fading. If such a luxury exists.’’
Melinda ChanMacau, China
Photography is... Memory of life
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanmelmel/
Kate Kirkwood52, born in South Africa, lives in the Lake District, England
Photography is... a form of celebration; each time the shutter blinks, it's a wink to the world, an acknowledgement of wonder.
[email protected] www.katekirkwood.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katekirkwood/
‘‘I live on a farm in the hills of the Lake District in England...In my spare time I'm learning about sheep dialects and on fine days I run naked in the woods and on the fells.’’
Patrick Joust35, from Oroville, California, lives in Baltimore, Maryland
Photography is...like other art forms, its own language. Sometimes there is a tendency to try and sum up what a picture is or what it means in words and while such efforts can be
worthwhile, it’s important to let a photograph stand on its own. Context can be great, but it depends on how it’s applied and sometimes meaning from a piece of artwork can be lost by
over talking it.
A couple months ago I rewatched the documentary William Eggelston in the Real World. I find it interesting that Eggleston, as shown in the documentary, is so difficult to talk to
about his work and photography and art in general. This is especially interesting given the fact that, these days, writing/talking about your work, giving it a sense of context, is
considered almost more important than the work itself. In the documentary, Eggleston, when pressed on the subject, reacted grumpily and with a sense of amazement at the
attempts of others to describe the indescribable in a picture.
I definitely think it’s worthwhile to try and write and talk about art, but I’m sympathetic to Eggleston’s point of view because I do think it’s impossible to truly explain a good piece of
artwork in words. When I think of a lot of writing about art, even at its very best, it seems to scrape around the edges, to lock in on a tangent or something, all done very well, but
ultimately missing the target.
When it comes to my own thoughts, writing, and conversations about photography I find that I tend to talk about the peripheral elements associated with it. I’m focused on process,
timelines, cameras, developing, etc., but it’s actually very difficult to talk effectively about the pictures. I don’t begrudge talking and writing about these peripheral things because I think they are interesting in and of themselves. Cameras as objects, for instance, are beautiful and amazing things because of what can be created with them. I think many people’s fascination with them is understandable, but that fascination is often a proxy for the real thing because
the real thing, the pictures, can’t adequately be explained. Words can put limitations on other expressive mediums, especially if we find ourselves paying closer attention to what’s
written than what’s being shown in a painting or photograph. Because the two things, written language and photography, have “nothing to do with the other,” as Eggleston says,
it’s possible even to degrade a work by too much contextualizing and exposition. The bottom line is that photography is something that should be strong enough to stand on its own. It shouldn’t need to be supplemented by context to convey a feeling or a message or
whatever it is that photographs do that make us want to keep looking.
www.flickr.com/patrickjoust patrickjoust.tumblr.com/
Peter Baker34, from Blissfield, Michigan, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Photography is...is, for me, a reminder of the way things are, and the things we’ve done. It’s the art of documentation.
[email protected] http://peterbaker.net
http://ptrbkr.com, Twitter.com/ptrbkr,
Instagram.com/peterbaker
William Pearce21, from Norfolk, lives in Surrey
Photography is... challenging
[email protected] www.williampearcephotography.com
http://willpearce.tumblr.com/ @willjpearce
"Coming form norfolk i was often surrounded by nature, i think this is what drew me to landscape photography. since then i have found myself focusing on the relationships between nature and the man-made, how they co-exist or conflict within a space"
Phillip Kalantzis Cope30, born in Athens, Greece, grew up in Australia, currently in NYC
Photography is...not a profession.
www.phillipkalantziscope.com
April Farnum38, from Chicago, Illinois, lives in Denver, Colorado
Photography is...Life.
[email protected]://www.aprilfarnum.com
‘‘I like the idea of preserving something. A space, a time. I mainly shoot in urban settings (unconventional people, decaying infrastructure, remnants of old advertising, architecture, street art), as well as food and interiors. I’ve always been drawn to capturing a moment. Something that would have happened with or without me.’’
Guan Zitian35, Beijing
Photography is...something like love, reality, fantasy, cruel, beautiful.
Paola Leonardi32, from Italy, lives in London, England
Photography is...my job, my passion and my life. Photography is something I cannot live without as it is the way I develop myself as a person
http://www.leonardiphoto.com http://www.borderlandstheedgesofeurope.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/PaolaLeonardiPhotography
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