Wednesday, May 4 2005
Thomas Pindelski : http://pindelski.my-expressions.com

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photoblogs magazine: Help us to get to know you a bit by describing your life outside of photography.
thomas pindelski : When not taking pictures, looking at pictures or thinking about pictures I tend my vineyard and listen to Chopin.
pm: Describe your earliest motivation for taking pictures.
tp: I wanted nothing so much as to record the world around me, the vibrant streets of London, its wonderful people, its incredible humor.
pm: What would you most like to photograph given the chance, and why?
tp: London during the Blitz in 1940, because courage and conviction are values we have abandoned.
pm: Who most influenced your way of seeing?
tp: Caravaggio because he saw the details.   Degas because he saw the moment.   Brandt because he saw differently.
pm: You have a newly published book.  Give us a short synopsis.
tp: Street Smarts is my newly published book of street photographs. Why street photographs?   It always seemed to me that the genre offered too much that was either humorless or contrived.   Posed pictures trying to pass for spontaneity.   Make it spontaneous and interject a touch of humor and now you have a picture worth taking.

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