• In 1-2 words, what do you shoot?
• Memorable moments
• What’s your weapon of choice?
• Canon 5d & Polaroid slr680
• Where is your favorite place on earth?
• 3 way tie between Tokyo, Matanzas de cuba , and Williamstown mass (where my mothers family is from.)
• What would be your replacement Hobby/Profession if photography was dead?
• Graphic Design & Calligraphy….both of which im still very active in.
• Swimming with sharks or toiling with alligators?
• Toiling w/ the alligators. Like Al Pacino said in Devils advocate “Never let em see you coming.”
• What do you favor:
B&W or Color?
I like B&W but I feel color is much more challenging. Ithink a lot of people take a decent photo then make it black and white. Then its “artistic” don’t get me wrong there are some incredible black & white photographiers but it think a lot of people who shoot black and white are just being lazy.
Film or Digital?
Well film is so magical you never know what you will get until you expose it so fil will always be supreme. But I really enjoy the controllability and ability to rapidly work digitaly.
Studio or Location?
Location, I love city scenes.
Night or Day?
Night time, so much more going in the night.
Portrait or Landscape?
I get down with both trying to find ways to combine the two nicely
Dark Wing Duck or robot chicken?
Man Aqua teen hunger force all day!
• What is your most treasured possession?
• My Orishas
• Favorite photo book and/or Favorite movie?
• Favorite photobook is “Popular” and my favorite movie right about now is either “no country for old men” or “there will be blood” the dialogues in those movies are amazing.
• Photographer/s that inspire you?
Ummmm….there are so many kinds…. war time photographers, documentary photographers, fashion, landscape, potrait…etc. I guess the ones that influence me the most are the ones I shoot with or hang with regularly Tara Chumpelik, Shane Nash, Kelly Nicolaisen, Leo Docuyanan, Amanda Lopez….and that fucker Trevor Traynor.
• Advice for the younglings out there looking through their first viewfinder?
• Don’t take the short route of buying a cam taking a million shots and calling yourself a photographer, also don’t just run up on any photographer you think is good and barrage them w/ a million questions. Take your time, do some apprenticeship, learn your craft. Even tho I shoot digital and haven’t been shooting for to long. I feel that the advent of digital photography has made people lazy and spoiled. You can just go on flickr now and see peoples fstop settings for shots or google how to set up your lights. If we rush to just try to be famous or well known photographers over night then we are missing the point of photography. Its not just be know to be someone who takes a good picture but to be some one who captures moments in a amazing and incredible way. Maybe that’s just me maybe im just old school.
• What’s the story behind the photo below?
This is a collection of several shots from a recent trip to Japan.
• Any future projects or travels?
• I really want to go back to Japan & Cuba….I would love to get back down to the south and shoot.
• I am currently putting together a project interviewing tour managers and managers of artists for a project called “tour of duty”
• Where can we see more of your work?
• Right now
http://superduty.wordpress.com
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlarockwell
I got to get a official site together soon….arggg
• In 1 word, last thing you’d say if time stopped right NOW?
• Magnificient
Photo courtesy of the artist "Scott La Rockwell"
Thank you
T2
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