Your name:
Ian Baguskas

Age(optional):
28

Where are you from?
Philadelphia

Where do you live now?
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

What’s your day job? (if you have one)
Freelance photography and a little photo assisting.

Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be
photographers necessarily)
Harry Callahan, Jeff Wall, and the surrealist
movement.

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that
photography was something you wanted to pursue
seriously:
It was more of a gradual decision. I’m still
interested in painting and especially printmaking (I
like layers), but I don’t do those things at the
moment. I had grown up being interested in both art
and natural sciences. It would have been cool to be a
field researcher, but my younger sister took that job
anyway. Photography is the closest to being a field
researcher that I’m going to get and it actualy feels
prety close. I’m really interested in the strangeness
of reality and photography seems to be the best way
for me to capture that.

What kind of camera do you use?
I use my Mamiya 7 and when I get a chance I use a
Linhof Technika IV 4×5. For a while I used a
Yashica-D twin lens (got stolen), and I replaced it
with a Mamiya C330 twin lens, but it’s a little heavy.
I was using an Olympus-XA for a little while until I
lost it.

What’s your favorite film?
I watch so many movies. This is a hard one. Of
course I grew up loving movies like “Raiders of the
Lost Ark”, “The Emerald Forest”, “Goonies”, “The
Mosquito Coast” and such. Movies that I can think of
right now are ones with odd titles like “Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring”, “White Hunter,
Black Heart” (cool Clint Eastwood movie), Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “Squid and the Whale”.
Directors that come to mind are Stanley Kubrik,
Sergio Leon, Takeshi Kitano, Zhang Yimou, The Coen
Brothers, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre
Jeunet, Peter Weir, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Brian
De Palma, and Werner Herzog.

What’s your Favorite Museum?
The Franklin Institute, The Philadelphia Art Museum
(for sentimental reasons), and most zoo’s and pet
stores although they can be kinda sad.

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
I don’t really have any favorites. Some of the
artists that come to mind are Neil Young, Brian
Wilson, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno (the early years), The
Beatles, Django Reinhart, King Tubby, Bob Dylan, Nina
Simone, Irma Thomas, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Rabih
Abou-Khalil, Curtis Mayfield, Cat Stevens, Donald
Byrd, and Sandy Bull.

What are you reading now?
National Geographic.

Favorite color?
Yellowish green and greenish blue next to orange.

Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
nytimes.com
rottentomatoes.com (even though imdb.com is better and
not everyday)

What are your favorite foods?
Grilled Mackerel, a good nectarine, and mint chocolate
chip ice cream

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell
us about it.
Just Ping pong right now. I used to raise chameleons.

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
There are a lot of animals that I wouldn’t mind being.
Something that could fly would be my first choice
like a Goshawk or some sort of arboreal creature like
an Indri Lemur.

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
Not any more. I’d like to make films. Wouldn’t
everyone?

Your name:
Alison Grippo

Age(optional):
34

Where are you from?
Manhattan, NY

Where do you live now?
Manhattan, NY (perils of never learning how to drive)

What’s your day job? (if you have one)
I’m a project manager at an Internet agency… I’m one of those dot.com/bomb folk.

Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be photographers necessarily)
Mary Ellen Mark - Her streetwise gave me the bright idea of getting up at 3am to shoot New York life when I was in highschool. Note to self: young girl, 8th avenue, in the early 80s carrying a camera - bad idea.

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously:
It’s always been in the back of the brain, but about a year ago I was in a slump and made a commitment to do something creative which i enjoyed for 30 days. Every day I carried my camera and I walked the streets. Every day I took pictures until finally I i realized that I had lost track of what day it was and I knew I wasn’t going to put the camera down again.

What kind of camera do you use?
For most everything it’s my trusty canon 20D, I have an old twin lens that’s a tank which I can barely lift that I will use on occasion. I think I have more fun looking through the waist level viewfinder than actually shooting with that camera, which I’m sure is what the manufacturer was thinking too “it will take pictures and it will be a home entertainment device”.

What’s your favorite film?
Is there a movie out there better than Tuff Turf? James Spader, Robert Downey Jr. hair crimping, tube skits, and florescent ankle socks with 3 inch red heels? I think not. I’m terrible at this question, ok I will admit it, I love Jerry Bruckheimer movies. I’m a sucker for a big bang and the everyman saving the world. Long live Con Air!

What’s your Favorite Museum?
The Museum of Natural History. It’s actually the only museum where I have a membership.

Who is your hero?
Eek. Hero? Hmm. Batman? In all seriousness, I think there are a a good deal of people who I look up to and hope to emulate in certain ways on a daily level. It may sound sort of sappy, but there is a fellow, Robert (Bobby) Charles — he was an incredibly close friend of the family. I do often think of him when I think of who I would call a “hero” or an “inspiration”. He was just a “guy”, but he was a guy who always fought for he felt was fair whether it was for himself or anyone around him. He has a small fan club throughout the lower east side — I’m a member.

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
Oh that’s just too humiliating to answer. For the record, though, it is not Clay Aiken.

What are you reading now?
Road Work by Mark Bowden

Favorite color?
Oh, that’s easy. Purple. I love purple. I’ve loved purple since I could see and say Purple. If it were up to me purple would be mandatory for all.

Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
flickr.com
curbed.com
nytimes.com

What are your favorite foods?
Potatoes. Potatoes in all forms, preferably fried. Actually is “fried” a food? Because if it is, I love “fried”.

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
Video Games. It’s really not a hobby as much as it is an affliction, but I adore playing video games.

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
Tiger.

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
Nope. I try and cook, but Fresh Direct has really stolen my thunder there.

Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
Never before. First timer, and I am really excited about it.

Your name:
Andrea Longacre-White

Age(optional):
25

Where are you from?
Suburbs of Philadelphia

Where do you live now?
Lower East Side

What’s your day job?
Freelance graphic design, trying to make photo
and Forsythian press fulltimers…

Which artists inspire you?
Georges Perec, Claude Cahun, Agnes Martin, Sophie Calle, Walid Ra’ad,
Max Ernst, Ryan Kearney, Jason Wurm and the photo group, David
Wojnarowicz for his Rimbaud in New York series, Jim Goldberg for
Raised by Wolves

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was
something you wanted to pursue seriously:
I think it was more the moment I realized that nothing else could
replicate or come close to the pure pleasure and sense of engagement
with the world that I felt/feel photographing.

What kind of camera do you use:
R7 leica & a 500C Hasselblad

What’s your favorite film?
Jacqueline Goss’s The 100th Undone, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate

What’s your Favorite Museum?
Duchamp’s Valise

Who is your hero?
Me mum

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
NPR? Music has oddly never been a huge part of my life

What are you reading now?
Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, a friends mom recently gave me Smart Women
Finish Rich

Favorite color?
Greens n browns

What are your favorite foods?
Melted cheese over anything, avocados, jones burgers

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
Humanly mechanized reproduction: the making of multiples by hand:
repeating repeating repeating till it expands beyond reason

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
An 11 month old wheaten terrier so i can roll around all day as my
puppy’s playing equivalent!

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
Make books, developping Forsythian Press, write, design

Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
Tinyvices: group show
Red, White and Blue: group show

Your name:
Casey Kelbaugh

Age(optional):
32 years inside this head.

Where are you from?
First Princeton, NJ, and then Seattle, WA.

Where do you live now?
East Village, Manhattan

What’s your day job?
I am a part-time shepherd.

Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be photographers necessarily)
Leonard Cohen, Sabra Field, Sebastao Salgado, John Currin, Bob Dylan, Greg Lundgren, Andy Goldsworthy, Joseph Campbell, Elinor Carucci, Edward Gorey, Kenneth Josephson, Keith Haring, W. Somerset Maugham, etc.

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously:
I was into drawing and later, painting. One day in 1997, while studying sumi-e ink painting in Tokyo, I began to feel the frustrations with the medium as well as my own limitations. I took a look at the snapshots I had taken in years previous and the paintings I was making at the time and realized that the photographs were stronger. Once I came to terms with that, my approach to painting was: “What’s the point?� Sometimes I think your medium chooses you.

What kind of camera do you use?
The tool changes frequently and gets knocked around pretty good, but at the moment it’s a Nikon D200.

What’s your favorite film?
An Inconvenient Truth

What’s your Favorite Museum?
Manhattan

Who is your hero?
My father

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
Lou Reed

What are you reading now?
I read all the time and I still can never keep up. Most of my time is spent with periodicals (which is probably a curse,) New York Magazine and News Photographer being some of my favorites.

Favorite color?
Um.

Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
slideluckpotshow.com
lightstalkers.org
worldpicturenews.com

What are your favorite foods?
I cook almost all of my meals and I eat like a king. I guess that means my favorite meals are big bowls of cereal, well-designed sandwiches, pasta dishes, egg scrambles, curries, salads, quesadillas, and barbeque.

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
One hobby I have is a guestbook I have for my apartment. I am determined to make it the most dynamic and memorable of its kind, and to do so, I am hosting some pretty interesting people. If only I could get them to sign the book.

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
Astrologically I am a Taurus with a Leo rising, and by the Chinese calendar, I am a Tiger. So I guess that makes me part-Tiger, part-Lion, part-Bull and part-Man.

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
I cook in a pretty spontaneous and intuitive way. I date in a similar fashion.

Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
I have contributed work to every Slideluck Potshow (http://www.slideluckpotshow.com) since I founded it in Seattle in 2000— which is over 26 slideshows. I have been a part of other shows as well, but Slideluck has been my focus. What better way is there to look at photography than in a slideshow with a room full of people, anyway?

Your name:
Sarah Small

Age(optional):
27 years old

Where are you from?
Washington DC

Where do you live now?
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

What’s your day job?
freelance photographer. so I sit at my computer and edit shoots, build my portfolios, upkeep contact list, and write a never-ending slew of e-mails to magazines’ accounting departments for invoices left unpaid for months.

Which artists inspire you? (Doesn’t need to be photographers necessarily)
my friend Shara Worden inspires me a lot. She is the singer for a band called “My Brightest Diamond”
I think most of my photographic motivation and inspiration comes from friend’s musical sparks and successes. Maybe because both of my parents are musicians.

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously:
When I french kissed my hot heavy-metal pre-teen boyfriend in a film-loading darkroom after 7th grade at my sleep-away arts camp, Buck’s Rock.

What kind of camera do you use?
Canon 5D

What’s your favorite film?
Living in Oblivion / Edward Scissors / American Beauty / Pee Wee’s Big

What’s your Favorite Museum?
Junk Yards
Friends and Lovers’ closets and under-the-bed shoe-boxes
NY Subway

Who is your hero?
Michael Jackson

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
Nirvana and NIN of course. oooo… and Philip Glass and Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, and

What are you reading now?
A Path with Heart, by Jack Kornfield

Favorite color?
To wear: black, gray, beige, brown, and pink
To see in a rock I found at the beach or something: jade and sea-foam green and wine red, purple, and sunny orange.

Name at least three web sites you visit everyday:
www.google.com
www.sarahsmall.com

What are your favorite foods?
steak, oysters, avocado, stinky stinky stinky cheese, not-too-sweet but very moist chocolate cake, fresh tomato, mozzarella, basil, carrot/beat/ginger/apple juice, complex cabernet/shiraz blends- not to sweet, but a little berry-ful and not to tannin-y

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
I sing in an 8-woman Brooklyn-based Bulgarian Choir, Yasna Voices. We perform lots and practice on Sundays and will be traveling to Bulgaria this summer to study in a small village with Kremena Stancheva and work on all sorts of traditional vocal ornamentations.

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
oooo…. some exotic bird that flys real high and sees awesome views all the time or a dolphin maybe to check out the sea all the time. I love underwater, but scuba diving feels so so unnatural to me, but yet I always go back for more. Or, maybe a big black bear with a whole bunch of adorable cubs to protect and a bear husband to hang out with to protect me in the woods at night.

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
I sing with Yasna Voices as mentioned above. I also make my own music at home on Logic.
I take a Polaroid a Day every day for 8 years and plan to continue for life.

Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
Yep, lots. I love showing work. :))
Check here:
http://www.sarahsmall.com/index.php?a=3&b=3#4

Your name:
Andrea Chu

Age (optional):
31

Where are you from?
Palo Alto, CA

Where do you live now?
Brooklyn, NY

What’s your day job?
Watching the ice cream trucks go by my apartment with my nephew.

Which artists inspire you?
Terri Wefienbach, William Eggelston, and Wong Kar
Wei.

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was
something you wanted to pursue seriously:
When my friend Ken corrupted me with stolen film from the photo supply
store we worked at.

What kind of camera do you use?
Mamiya 645 Afd, Hasselblad, and Polaroids (Land Camera and
Sx-70)

What’s your favorite film?
Classic:Umbrellas of Cherborg
Contemporary:Chungking Express

Who is your hero?
My dad

What are your favorite foods?
Rice and soup, Gummi Bears (Haribo-Gold), and my sister-in-law’s pasta dishes

What are you reading right now?
Accordian Crimes by Annie Prioux

Who’s your favorite musical artist/group?
The Jam