Photo artist interview #87 - TED PUSHINSKY

• In 1-2 words, what do you shoot?

mysteries

• What’s your weapon of choice?

nikon

• Where is your favorite place on earth?

Emilia Romagna

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

cartographer

• What do you favor:

B&W or Color? b&w

Film or Digital? Film (probably because I don’t know enough about how digital works)
Studio or Location? The street

Night or Day? day

Portrait or Landscape? both

Spike Lee or Spike Jonze? Neither, but with a gun to my head: Spike Lee (c’mon, he made “25th Hour”)

Dave Chappelle or David LaChapelle? Dave Chapelle as Tyrone Biggums


• What is your most treasured possession?

A matrimonial hammock my buddies made while incarcerated in La Penitenceria Juarez in Merida.

• Favorite photo book and/or Favorite movie?

Book: Conrad’s “The Rescue” Movie: “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”

• Photographer/s that inspire you?

It’s endless: Walker Evans, Cartier Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Tony Ray Jones, Henry Wessel, Brassai, Hine, Penn, Weston, Kertesz, Strand, Brandt, Weegee, Levitt, Lange. Model, William Klein…

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

SEE what you’re looking at.

• What’s the story behind the photo below?

My son clutching his mother’s leg at a house party

• Any future projects or travels?

Right now, it’s all just talk

• Where can we see more of your work?

www.tedpushinsky.com

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

“Kath?”


Photo courtesy of the artist "Ted Pushinsky"

Thank you

T2