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David Sperring
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My name is David Sperring, I'm 25 years old and living in California. I was born here but moved to Pennsylvania, Then Michigan and back to California at the age of 14. I have been taking photographs all my life but didn't try to take a serious one till I was 17. Around that time I was in a silk screening class and made shirts out of the photographs I was taking and selling them out of my trunk to avoid getting a real job. After High School I started taking photography classes at the local community college then some Internet courses at Academy of Art University. In 2005 I was in a "best of college photography" book. The book featured one of my first "serious" photographs I have ever taken. Along with photography and silkscreen I enjoy art. Recently I have been buying wood from a local Home Depot and making my own frames and canvas out of the wood. In October of 2009 some of my photographs and paintings where made into an installation for a Urban Outfitters window in Costa Mesa, Ca. Along with the art work is a giant gold dead rat i spray painted at the top of the wall with the gold paint dripping down into the paintings and photographs. I have yet to break free from Southern California though many times I have dreamed of moving to San Francisco or New York to help further my creativity. I love to walk around and just take photographs of random things, and I know in a city like those my options would be endless. Till then I keep my self busy with two jobs, silk screening my own shirts and trying to add new images as much as possible to my website www.davidsperring.com

This is my friend john, the picture was taken on Halloween of 2009. I was at a party and once he showed up i just had to pull him aside and take his photograph. I'm normally shy about asking people to pose but with this one i just couldn't let it get away. Once i took it i had that feeling it was going to be one of my favorite photographs Ive taken,and i was right. That's one of the best feelings, right after you take a picture with film and just know its going to be your favorite new thing.

This is my other friend Joel,the photography was taken in Long Beach,Ca. There is a record store there that is just the best to get vinyl and other rare stuff. I met Joel down there so I could pick up the newest Felice Brothers album. Joel comes walking up with his dog Tank, I bent down to play with Tank for a little and when I came back up Joel was just taking a drag from this cigarette, I took the picture as fast as I could so it wouldn't look posed once he saw me taking it. I love this photograph and just wish the background was different because I feel if it was you would never be able to tell when it was taken, It would have that timeless feel to it.

I hadn't seen my friend Matt for months, one night he randomly calls me cause he was back in town. We meet up at a 7-11 to catch up, he tells me he wrote some new songs and wanted to play them for me, so in the parking lot he takes out his guitar and just starts playing. I luckily had a few cameras in my car so I grabbed one of my medium format ones and just started shooting. He kept stomping and twisting his feet super into the song. In every picture you can just see him lost in the moment and I think you can see it almost in just his feet.

This is Laura, Laura is beautiful but every time I try to take a picture she hides her face. I was playing with a Polaroid camera when I took this. I tried to trick her into thinking I was just showing her out it works so I could get a shot of her face. I guess she is smarter than I thought cause she quickly covered her face and this is the outcome. A ghostly black and white Polaroid of Batman's face.

DAVID SPERRING // www.davidsperring.com

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Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek (website)

2009-12-13T15:23:00.000+01:00

Rosemary Hudson (blog)

2009-12-13T15:21:00.000+01:00

Hristina Papadopulos

2009-12-13T15:17:00.001+01:00

Tess Roby

Special Guest 02

2009-12-06T14:14:00.004+01:00

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Pedro Ramos
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I was born and raised in Madeira Island. Over the last few years I've been living in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and currently, in Sydney.

Even though I'm not the subject matter of my photographs, they end up working as a personal journal. Sometimes the photographs are so unrelated to what happened in real life but I still reminisce things from that time, place or moment in a very clear way through them.

I took this photo this Summer back home. It brings back strong memories from my early years on the island. It's all about carelessness, freedom and having fun with your friends.

This is a funny local skater kid at a skatepark in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. He was in awe when he saw me loading film into my camera. He had never seen a film camera before.

This happened on a Summer night in Porto Santo, Madeira's neighboring island. I had just gotten home from a night out and my friend said he was just having a smoke down the beach when he saw this yacht drifting towards shore with no one on board. I obviously though he was lying... Somehow I ended up going down the beach and saw it with my very own eyes. The captain was in the ship, asleep. He only woke up when we started shouting in his direction. We helped him out of his ship and it ended up staying on the beach for a couple of weeks or so. The captain just had a nice island holiday. I ran into him a couple of days later and he was eating seafood and drinking beer at this beach shack restaurant.

PEDRO RAMOS // www.pedroramos.org

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Kavin W

2009-12-01T02:44:00.003+01:00

Carl William Heindl (website)

2009-12-01T02:41:00.000+01:00

André Santos

2009-12-01T02:34:00.001+01:00

Miss Kaplan

Special Guest 01

2009-11-23T14:24:00.012+01:00

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Benjamin Mouly
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I'm French, 22 and I'm currently living in Lyon, the town where I was born. Last year, after three boring years studying Communication and English in my hometown, I needed something new and crazy, an escape from the routine. I left for Australia in September, hoping for a second summer. I spent eight months there wandering all around the place, meeting new people all the time and doing miscellaneous jobs whenever I needed cash for the tank, the food and the beer. Now I'm back home, working in a stupid factory, taking pictures when I need to (just like I did for 5 years). I'm soon going back to New York to see my girlfriend when I got enough money for myself.

All of these pictures have a certain history in my life. They're mirrors of a moment, a feeling that made me push the button. If this feeling is not obviously inside the pictures, I feel intimately linked to them. But the link is off-frame, it is a strange mystery, and I’m the only to know it. I belong to these images, not the opposite. Who think one can own a picture, even its own? It's you to imagine what could have possibly made me put these pictures in my diary.

When I lived in Sydney, there was a hairdresser further up the road from my hostel in Bondi. Going back from the grocery once, I was walking by and thought I could take a picture. Just when I stepped in, he appeared in front of my face pulling up his pant.

The second picture is a man that I saw in a Waffle House in Atlanta this summer. He was staring at me when I took the picture. I will never figure what he was thinking at this very moment.

The last picture goes back to my time in Australia. My friend Nico and I almost had no money. Not much more than a hundred bucks for both of us. We had passed many towns on our way up from Sydney, asking for jobs where everyone was answering “It’s really quiet here mate, you should keep up North.”. We finally got stuck in a flooded town in Northern Queensland. We stayed there one week because all the exits where blocked. Luckily we found job under the table, working in a hotel moving furniture.

BENJAMIN MOULY // benjamin-mouly.blogspot.com

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Charlie Engman

2009-11-17T14:21:00.000+01:00

Joshua Whitelaw (blog)

2009-11-17T14:17:00.001+01:00

Sylvain Emmanuel Prieur (website)

2009-11-17T14:14:00.002+01:00

Jenna Popoli

2009-11-17T14:12:00.000+01:00

Talena Sanders (website)

2009-11-09T14:43:00.000+01:00

某 [ mǒu ] (website)

2009-11-09T14:40:00.000+01:00

Kaj Lehmann (website)

2009-11-09T14:39:00.000+01:00

Łukasz Wierzbowski (website)

2009-11-09T14:35:00.000+01:00

Diana Kraus (website)

2009-11-09T14:33:00.000+01:00

Lyndsay Buchanan

2009-11-09T14:29:00.000+01:00

Suzanna Zak (website)

2009-10-29T13:45:00.000+01:00

Jenna Popoli

2009-10-29T13:43:00.001+01:00

Oscar W.

2009-10-29T13:40:00.001+01:00

T. Reilly Hodgson (website)

2009-10-29T13:38:00.000+01:00

Nastya Tailakova

2009-10-29T13:26:00.001+01:00

Christie Young

2009-10-22T00:17:00.000+02:00

Ana Kraš (website)

2009-10-22T00:16:00.000+02:00

Colby Miers (website)

2009-10-22T00:14:00.000+02:00

Sara Perovic (website)

2009-10-22T00:12:00.000+02:00

Brividi di Brembo

2009-10-22T00:11:00.000+02:00

Kelley Smith (blog)

2009-10-22T00:07:00.000+02:00

Nemanja Knezevic (blog)

2009-10-14T14:23:00.004+02:00

Łukasz Wierzbowski (website)

2009-10-14T14:20:00.000+02:00

Hannah Myall (Hope & Anchor)

2009-10-14T14:14:00.000+02:00

André Santos

2009-10-14T14:06:00.000+02:00

Alice_Ecila (blog)

2009-10-14T13:42:00.002+02:00

Mark King (blog)

2009-10-06T15:24:00.000+02:00

Steven Beckly (website)

2009-10-06T15:23:00.001+02:00

David Meskhi (website)

2009-10-06T15:21:00.000+02:00

Sam Plant

2009-10-06T15:18:00.000+02:00

Chelsee Ivan (website)

2009-10-06T15:07:00.000+02:00

Luke Byrne

2009-09-29T16:30:00.001+02:00

Ripples of heart (website)

2009-09-29T16:28:00.001+02:00

Kelley Smith (blog)

2009-09-29T16:25:00.001+02:00

Natalia Urazmetova (website)

2009-09-29T16:23:00.002+02:00

Toby Cameron Price (website)

2009-09-29T16:21:00.000+02:00

Sarah Kate

2009-09-29T16:15:00.000+02:00

Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek (website)

2009-09-22T14:20:00.003+02:00

Christian Pitschl (website)

2009-09-22T13:42:00.001+02:00

T. Reilly Hodgson (website / Blood of the Young)

2009-09-22T13:04:00.000+02:00

Tim Jones

2009-09-22T12:56:00.000+02:00

Carl William W. Heindl (website)

2009-09-22T12:53:00.001+02:00

Amy DiLorenzo (blog)

2009-09-22T12:42:00.000+02:00

Cristian Ordóñez (website)

2009-09-14T14:33:00.000+02:00

Randy P. Martin

2009-09-14T14:31:00.000+02:00

Paul Phung

2009-09-14T14:30:00.000+02:00

Dima Semenovykh

2009-09-14T14:27:00.000+02:00

Caliek

2009-09-14T14:12:00.000+02:00

Ezgi Polat (website)

2009-09-07T00:58:00.001+02:00

Hasisi Park (website)

2009-09-07T00:49:00.001+02:00

Craig Nunn (website)

2009-09-07T00:48:00.001+02:00

Onlyfools.

2009-09-07T00:44:00.002+02:00

Anna Liisa

2009-09-07T00:42:00.000+02:00

Sam Plant

2009-09-01T14:16:00.000+02:00

Salva López (website)

2009-09-01T14:14:00.001+02:00

Emil Kozak (website)

2009-09-01T14:10:00.001+02:00

Ben Hoffman

2009-09-01T14:07:00.001+02:00

Flamingtea

2009-09-01T14:06:00.000+02:00

Noelia Carballo (blog)

2009-09-01T13:59:00.001+02:00

Sylvain Emmanuel Prieur (website)

2009-09-01T13:42:00.001+02:00

Michelle Kathleen Anderson (website)

2009-08-24T16:58:00.001+02:00

小堂陳 (blog)

2009-08-24T16:56:00.000+02:00

Saraseaside

2009-08-24T16:55:00.000+02:00

Kelley Smith (blog)

2009-08-24T16:54:00.000+02:00

Tim Lanfranc (blog)

2009-08-24T16:48:00.000+02:00

Christie Young

2009-08-16T18:47:00.000+02:00

Margaret Durow (website)

2009-08-16T18:46:00.000+02:00

Ewa Zawistowska

2009-08-16T18:44:00.000+02:00

Arno Arno

2009-08-16T18:41:00.001+02:00

Carl W. Heindl (website)

2009-08-16T18:28:00.002+02:00

Goran Jovanovic

2009-08-09T23:59:00.001+02:00

Marcin Grüner (website)

2009-08-09T23:56:00.001+02:00

Ilaria Rossetti

2009-08-09T23:53:00.002+02:00

Joshua Whitelaw (blog)

2009-08-09T23:44:00.002+02:00

Flamingtea