PhotoCollective, the Reasons of Photography - dialogues and questions about photography with @zdrilx PhotoCollective

Iris Brosch - beauty, erotism, and sexuality through self-respect, a renaissance of feminine values

Iris is a multi-talented multimedia artist whose photographic and film work touches on the concepts of dignity and attempts to reveal the true image of women in photography.

In this dialogue, Iris talks about her approach to beauty and how she often sees values of masculinity as a means to control.

Feminine values beyond fear and aestheticism, nudity, and erotism can open a self-respectful view of beauty and sexuality. Iris talks about how she approaches dignity & understands the strength of the women's image.

Her website http://irisbrosch.com
Her Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/irisbrosch/

Global TV on Fashion , Art , Feminism & Erotic Intelligence https://www.instagram.com/theworldofirisbrosch/

Photography and performances https://www.instagram.com/irisbrosch_art/

Tania Kaaz - mesmerizing with film photography and getting in touch with deeper details of reality 

Tania discovered the magic of analog photography as a child. Capturing light in that way empowered her not only to be more mindful of her surroundings but also a way to share the finer details that most would have missed.

She discusses how she captures moments that would otherwise disappear for ever, and how her use of chemical processes where she soaks films in diverse substrates add a certain magic to the images of these moments.

How film represents something one can readily touch, to the opposite of a digital negative, and how in that sense it fully embraces its reality. She explains how her creative process generates beauty not only through the chemical transformation of the negatives but also simply because of the magic of the process as a whole.

She also is the founder of an online and in print project/magazine named Alter Analog https://www.alter-analog.com that focuses on works and artists pushing the boundaries of what analaog photography can do.

You can also see her work in a current exhibition (at the time of the podcast release) at the Spectra Art Space https://spectraartspace.com in Denver from March 11 for a month.

Her website https://www.taniakaaz.com

Her Instagram profiles https://www.instagram.com/tania_nofilter https://www.instagram.com/taniakaaz/

And the links to Alter Analog https://www.alter-analog.com and its Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/alter_analog/

Stefania Rosini - the magic of movies and photography, from Tuscany to movies sets in Hollywood

In this dialogue she talks about her passion for photography and how it revealed itself first in the darkroom but evolved with the magic of capturing light.

From her internship in the archives of a press agency, experimenting the passage between analog to digital photography, her love of music through photos of live musicians got her her first live venues assignments.

She talks about her approach to ‘capturing the soul’ by means of her art, a tangible mean to keep a trace of people or moments we love, and the fascination capturing that moment you will never be able to reproduce.

In 2018 she got in the SMPSP (Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers) union and pursues her dream of capturing photographs of these incredible productions.

Stefania’s website https://www.stefaniarosini.com

Stefania’s Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stefaniarosinistills_smpsp/

The Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers account https://www.instagram.com/smpspstills/ and website https://smpsp.org

The International Cinematographers Guild https://www.instagram.com/icglocal600/ and website https://www.icg600.com

Andrej Vasilenko - capturing reality, photography as a natural extension to represent objectivity

Andrej is a documentary photographer from Vilnius, Lithuania, the city which he made the focus of his first book, a wide-ranging subtle portrait of his hometown. He also works as a photo-reporter in various publications including the New York Times and Rest Of World magazine.

His style offers often a cinematic view of the details of reality, as he tries to convey the richness of individuals and the situations he captures in visual captures that opens up the mind to other stories and senses.

In this dialogue, he talks about how he naturally chose photography, or how photography chose him, and how he sees his current approach to the time and subjects. He talks about how he maintains his style without compromising the objective truth underneath, trying to stick to what his subjects are, closer to their true self.

Check his works on his website andrejvasilenko.lt 

His Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/andrejvasilenko 

And also the ThisIsVilnius project https://www.instagram.com/thisisvilnius ( link to the book on thisisvilnius.lt )

Jevgenija Frolova - human beauty, reality, and discovering each others emotions through photography

Jevgenija is a professional violist that embraced analog photography as a mean to herself become a composer.

In this dialogue she will discuss how her inspiration might come from the music but will express in pictures and how from the images in her mind and her own personal experiences she will interact with the models essential in the crafting of her art.

She talks about the journey inside oneself observing the beauty of all human beings and how she works with their unique stories. This is also how her interest in people fuels her creativity and how sharing each others individualities opened her energies to start that creative process.

How the process is a lead to being in the moment yourself, a link to the inner world of your emotions, by means of the analog photography process.

Her Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/phantazie/

And the orchestra and trio she plays in:
https://baltiastringtrio.com
https://kremeratabaltica.com

Beate Groetsch - storytelling with colors, sharing memories and emotions to reveal the senses.  

Beate is a German photographer, director and scriptwriter. She was present at PhotoSchweiz early this year to showcase her work : "Burning down childhood finding light" - https://www.photo-schweiz.ch/aussteller/p/beate-grtsch .

A dialogue about the story she tells with her work on colors, and how underwater lights in a pond transcend and serve to tell of the feelings related to personal stories.   

How creating pictures through photography can differ from the moving image, but also how organic and fundamental that process can be. And how photography can be part of a healing process, a means to go deeper in ones' self.  

She tells us about the importance of colors in her future projects, and how she is exploring the physical embodiment experience they can provide.  

Her personal website - http://www.groetschbeate.de 

Her Instagram profile - https://www.instagram.com/groetsch.beate