Work + Craft

“When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot.”—Audrey Tautou, in our interview about her photo series Superfacial

This is the job opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Now, let me be clear: I am personally not hiring anybody. You’re going to hire yourself.

“This is the tragedy of wanting to make art out of your own life, or wanting to make your own life out of your art – there is no way out.”—Antoine d’Agata, in our interview about his life and photography.

I work for myself, which means my boss is a real bitch. She makes me work long hours, never likes anything I produce until I’ve revised it a thousand times (and maybe not even then) and, after all that, she’ll hardly ever pay me a compliment or let me relax on vacation. Is this what I signed up for?

“There’s a lot of people who don’t understand that art is something that’s woven into the fabric of the community to strengthen it. What I’m doing is feeding, or nurturing the community’s souls. Helping spirits who need it.”—Lake Montgomery, in our interview about singing-songwriting

One of the problems with narrative thinking is that it asserts a beginning, a middle and an end, mental constructions that cannot be applied to the complicated fabric of Real Life. But, we don’t all agree on the narrative. One person’s climax is another’s lull.

The white of a canvas invites color, to the extent that white doesn’t appear so much as a color as it does a sign of incompleteness. It serves so well as a starting point that it’s hard to remember that white is even a color. Yet, it is a color. Many, in fact.

“It’s very difficult to be free. For society, a free person is not good because a free person has doubts, a free person has questions – very important questions – and these very important questions necessitate time, and after this, he will act.”—Pierre Liebaert, in our interview about his photo series Free Now.