Intervieu with yeang talented photographer: Dirk Hoffmann
1) How did your passion for photography developed
I was a Kid and the first pictures I see was from my grandpa, he take pictures and developed his in his own darkroom. So I have always enjoyed taking and watching pictures. Apart from that, I progress my Photography more in berlinand by friends. But also the online photo galleries.
2) What camera do you use? Dou you use one lense?
NIKON FE | Kiev 88 | Canon AF35M | Zenit ET and the lense with 2.8 or 1.8 blende
3) What do you want to tell?
So many undefined things flow in our life, so undefined is the photo. For me it means pictures are more in my world of ART. And of that I want to tell the things in my daily life.
colours | details | people | storys
But often I want another time in my pictures.
4) Tell about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.
I had a exhibition at the CAFÉ VILJA in Berlin-Pankow for one year. All 2 weeks I developed a picture in the darkroom and than I show this at the Café. That is a project for presentation and I have time to collect my pictures for a greater exhibition in a bigger room.
5) What is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?
time | light | positive thinking & energy | the life & love
6) Tell us about your experience as photographer what did it give you?
At first in the words from ART KANE | „I need an assignment, I love an assignment. I love discipline. Discipline creates freedom.“
And thats a feelingthatI havewhen I usemycameras | freedom.
7) Three adjectives to describe yourself.
quiet but aboveboard |restless | I thing other persons can say more about myself.
8) A film, a book and a song.
The last film I saw | American Graffiti
The last book I read | sowas von da( a book from tinohanekamp)
The musik I hear in this time | LP from GOLD PANDA DJ-KICKS
9) Do you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
I sell my prints at my exhibition. But person can ask me over my homepage or blog
10) Favourite photographer.
Heinrich Kühn | August Sander | Lillian Bassman | Saul leiter | Sibylle Bergemann | Laurence Ellis | Neil Bedford | billy Kidd| Lisa Wassmann
11) Your main concept.
DREAMS
12) Favourite website.
TOO MANY SITES | But I look often by the BlogYimmyYayo or 99 dreams
13) Your plans.
Besides the Job I hope to finish my photography studies in about 1 ½ years…. Even so I don´t see myself as a photographer, more like I dont want to beone. With my photos I want to affect the viewer and let them dream and remember these feelings as other artists have done to me.
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