Photo artist interview #56 - SEAN MARC LEE

• In 1-2 words, what do you shoot?

The space between a kiss

• What’s your weapon of choice?

Throwing knives

• Where is your favorite place on earth?

The hardboiled wonderland at the end of the world

• What would be your replacement Hobby/Profession if photography was dead?

Hong Kong pop star.

• Swimming with sharks or toiling with alligators?

Swimming with sharks while trying not to eat shark fin soup due to guilt.

• What do you favor:

B&W or Color? Both.

Film or Digital? Both.

Studio or Location? Locations as a studio.

Night or Day? Day for Night (It’s a good movie).

Portrait or Landscape? Portraits as Landscapes, Landscapes with portraits.

Dave Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? Eric Burdon?

• What is your most treasured possession?

Experience.

• Favorite photo book and/or Favorite movie?

One Book: Laughter in the Dark
Recent Movie(s): Oasis, Oto-Na-Ri

• Photographer/s Filmmakers that inspire you?

Koreeda Hirokazu, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Tsai Ming Liang, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Wong Kar-Wai, Johnnie To, Beat Takeshi, Chris Marker, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, so on and so on.

• Advice for the younglings out there looking through their first viewfinder?

Stop looking for a while and live first.

• What’s the story behind the photo below?

It says what it needs to say.

• Any future projects or travels?

Traveling is THE lifelong project.

• Where can we see more of your work?

http://www.seanmarclee.com & http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_carabinier

• In 1 word, last thing you’d say if time stopped right NOW?

黐線 (CHISEEN!)


Photo courtesy of the artist "Sean Marc Lee"

Thank you

T2