March 2013
Nina Hauser • with my iPhone and Eye
March 25 – May 5, 2013
I recently interviewed photographer Nina Hauser about her new show at WSG Gallery. You can see a few of the pieces here and find out more about her, her art and her work process. The reception is Friday, March 29, 7-9pm, and you meet her and can ask her a few questions of your own!
Interview:
1. What are some of the ways taking photos w/ your Iphone are different than with your digital SLR? (Do you use digital SLR?)
3. What was your first camera and do you recall what your thoughts were when you first got to take photos? my first camera was my Brownie Hawk eye given to me by my father when i was about eight…………i was adopted by my father when i was four and he married my mother, It was the first time i remember feeling an attachment to him because he gave me a camera so that he and i had something special that we did together……..just we two……………..he was a doctor and this was a hobby for him, but for me……..it was much more significant because it was link that we shared and could talk about……….
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4. What app were you most excited to add to your photo-altering tool kit?i don’t have just one favorite……….i have MANY favorites………….and i keep discovering them………..the latest one i found is called PuddingCam and i also like Hipstamatic……….both of them offer different lenses and film types and i am still trying to remember what does what………..alot of what i do that turns really well by accident……..there’s another one that i love called juxtaposer which allows me to combine two photos ………in one of my photos in the show, i used a sky i photographed in indonesia behind a porch that i shot on the cape because that day, the sky was blown out…….just whitish but i loved the porch………..looks pretty good now……..
5. Do you find any particular app more useful, overall, than others?
6. You have quite varied subject matter. Is there anything in particular that you find yourself gravitating to in terms of subject or are you looking at light and shadow, color and contrast or something else?i have been pretty consistent for the past 15 years now in loving things that are still ………..architecture, landscapes, objects usually old, receding perspectives ……………and then when the light is right, i get into my “zone” and i’m in heaven…………
