F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Jeff Phillips: I’ve been obsessed with photography almost as long as I can remember. I was first attracted to the camera as a gadget—a mysterious machine able bring time to a standstill. Like
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Daniel Kovalovszky: Until the age of 16 I had been planning to train to be an instrument maker after graduating from secondary school, but when I came across my father’s old cameras and
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Anna Agoston: My mother was an amateur photographer.  I started taking pictures when I was a little girl.  As an adult I tried various mediums, including oil on canvas, before settling on photography.
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F-Stop Magazine: The Portfolio Issue 2014 of F-Stop Magazine includes images from your project “Own Place”, can you tell us about this project? What led to this project? Wiktoria Wojciechowska: Nowadays, distance is no longer a barrier: We have cars, planes and internet. We can be in several countries each week, in many virtual places
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Anastasia Bogomolova: I was involved in photography through  journalism, which I studied at the university in Chelyabinsk. A few years after graduation I was working as an editor, but at the same time
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? flannery o’kafka: Once upon a time, in 1993, I took a high school journalism class.  That year, my parents gave me a TV for Christmas and I traded it in for a Pentax
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led you to working in this medium as an artist? Zora J Murff: I started using photography as a creative outlet. I took a couple of introductory courses at a community college and my love for it grew from there. It became a
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? Kristin Kula: I have always been an artistic person. My parents, although not practicing artists, have backgrounds in photography and painting. They have always been very supportive of my passions. At eight years
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F-Stop Magazine: How did you first become involved in photography and what led to you working in this medium as an artist? David Gardner: The seeds were planted at a young age but didn’t take root till much later. During a family outing in the Santa Cruz mountains, I got separated and lost in the
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