We recently came across a certain gentleman in our shuttercrack group, turns out he's a respected member of the Pistoleers. A mystic bond dating back from times when camera's where the sizes of small houses and flashes where mad out of fireballs. At least that is what we've been told, if it's true who will know. But we're eager to find out, so we wrote sir Petrucci a letter to enlighten us.

"You can't just rely on the idiosyncrasies of film as a cheap crutch to make good pictures, it doesn't work that way."

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• ben petrucci
• garage studios crew
• interview
• james kendall
• lomokev
• photography
• the pistoleers

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At the beginning of 2009 I saw this young lady crawling, climbing, ducking and performing other cool gymnastics moves on stage that I wish my body could do. After figuring out she was not part of the horrible venue's back up dancers, but was operating a camera like there was no tomorrow, I knew this could be something special. Rosa Maria Koolhoven works under the name of Nikanika.com. She lives in Utrecht and is in her final year of Graphic Design at the HKU High School of Arts Utrecht. During weekends she likes to take pictures at parties, of which 80% are dubstep parties.

Born in 1979 Sander Meisner is an Amsterdam based photographer, specialized in medium format film photography using long exposures and found artificial light. He photographs the urban contemporary landscape. Sander Meisner is a night walker, venturing out into the city discovering colorful beauty in the desolate corners of the gray man made structures. He exposes the sleeping infrastructure of the urban environment. Gifted with a feeling for composition and detail, Sander is turning these usually overlooked corners into objects of desire. The lack of light and extremely long exposure of the photographic film add a secondary effect; any interaction of human movement becomes totally invisible. Therefore, his pictures make us wonder what of this beauty will remain if human life would suddenly disappear. How long will infrastructure last when not regularly maintained and when will nature take over?

If traveling is a job then Ed Schofield would be employee of the month. This young photographer from a small town just south of good old London UK, has spend most of his time traveling around the world. Accompanied by his close friends and camera he sets sail to explore and document the world through his viewfinder. The result is a everlasting 2 frames a day documentary about his adventurous life. We took our chance to conduct an interview with this neo Jules Verne while he was back on solid ground.

Interested by the human psyche, obscurity and those tender, glorified moments of absence, Helen Flanagan work portraits the intensity of loneliness that we human beings like to close our eyes for. The general dreamy atmosphere of composition and used palette of loamy colors makes every photo look like a still from a dream. This photography is maybe not for everyone, but we really appreciate it. Turn of the lights, get a glass of whiskey and put on a Nick Drake record.

Meagan Long is twenty-one years old and from the eighteenth largest city in the U.S. Young and confused. Old and worldly. She knows who she is, but knows nothing about anyone else. She has everyone figured about, but is foreign to herself. Hasn't learned enough about the world. Has learned too much. Too much to care yet cares too much. Has lost faith in everything but still loves. Sometimes depressed yet mostly happy. Because there is one thing. One thing that she can't move past that leaves her waiting every time. Over and over again. It never moves past her mind, circling every waking moment. And even in her dreams. Not a nightmare, just a state of being in consciousness and unconsciousness. It is the basis of everything she says and everything she does. Everything she wants to learn, everywhere she wants to go. Her reason for leaving, her reason for staying. The inspiration behind all her work. It is the death and the life. Got curious? We did...

If I had to describe Tang Chan's work in one word I would say: distance. Even though she shoots portraits most of the time, there is a certain space between the viewer and the subject in her work. I stumbled upon her through a shuttercrack submission and fell instantley in love with her portfolio. You can see her work in real life at the CFYE "Spirit Level" exposition in Amsterdam during this month. Now first a interview with the great Tang herself.

David Richardson lives in a 'behind the scenes' adventure. Music gigs, artists, late night parties, beautiful women, (drunken) friends and drunken crowds are some of the subjects found in this London based photographer's work. His pictures are somehow realer then life. Maybe that's because of the film grain, maybe it's because of the moments he chooses. I don't know, but whatever it is, it keeps us coming back to his photos time and time again!

Her photos speak louder then any interview could do, cause her thoughts are allready deeply embedded in the chemicals of the movie stills like polaroids. Inverselive shows us that your work must do the talking, and we couldn't agree more with the photographer from Taipei, Tawain. The answers in this interview are almost redundant but yet shows us the minimalistic introvert spirit of the far east. Be amazed...we are!

Cesar Santiago works as a web designer/graphic designer in Granada, Spain. He studied design at the School of Art of Granada and there it was where he got his first contact with analogical photography and the traditional processes of developing. Since then, his little camera always goes with him. We had a small chat to find out why the toy soldiers are fighting our battles at night.