Photo artist interview #82 - URI KORN

• In 1-2 words, what do you shoot?

Synchronicity & coincidence

• What’s your weapon of choice?

Pentax 67 or Lightsaber

• Where is your favorite place on earth?

Cazadero, California

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

Mycology (study of mushrooms) or Photo historian

• What do you favor:

B&W or Color? depends

Film or Digital? hybrid

Studio or Location? location

Night or Day? depends

Portrait or Landscape? Environmental portrait

Spike Lee or Spike Jonze? depends

Dave Chappelle or David LaChapelle? Chapelle every time

• What is your most treasured possession?

A print by Robert Frank.

• Favorite photo book and/or Favorite movie?

Photo Book = “End of The Game” by Peter Beard
Films = “Big Trouble In Little China” & “Memory Screen (Alien Workshop)”

• Photographer/s that inspire you?

Atget, Peter Beard, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bill Burke, Robert Capa, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Ken Light, Lisette Model, Ken Nagahara, Bill Owens, Dennis Stock, Weegee.

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

See for yourself.

• What’s the story behind the photo below?

I was driving on the highway in Albuquerque, New Mexico and saw this fire/smoke and pulled off the highway at the next exit- as I came into the parking lot the angle of the light created a rainbow directly above a destroyed Dodge dealership. It is titled “Fire On The Mountain”.

• Any future projects or travels?

Making final edits for my book “100 Proofs From The Great Experiment”- hopefully will finish this summer. Taking a train next week from Oakland to Detroit to go to a wedding- will stop in a few cities along the way and back to shoot for one day each in Reno, Denver, Omaha, Chicago, & Ann Arbor.

• Where can we see more of your work?

Uristories.blogspot.com
Face book name = Rat Tail (I post photos there- hit me up)
Hamburgereyes.com &/or Hamburger Eyes magazines, books, & exhibits
My house

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

Ender


Photo courtesy of the artist "Uri Korn"

Thank you

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