November 1, 2004

Others Interviews

Jorn Tomter

www.tomter.net

Photographer | USA

Tell us about your background?
Started snapping friends in Norway 9 years ago because I had access to a darkroom. After a year on a basic photography course in Norway and a year travel I went to London to study photography at the London College of Printing and graduated in 2000. Have since been freelancing and working on personal briefs.

What inspires you?
Odd things.

What are you able to do for a photo?
Everything but hurting or insulting people.


What is the material you are using?
Medium format colour film.

What are the moments you like to size?
The moments that create curiosity from the viewer of the image.

Your favorite artists?
August Sander, Lise Olsen, Larry Sultan, Kim Hiorthøy, Ewen Spencer and many more


The nicest exhibition you have seen?
So many good, but two really good ones recently were Philip Lorca-DiCorcia (Whitechapel London) and Joel Sternfeld (Photographers Gallery London).

The nicest moment in your life? Have you photos of it?
It will come; the day George Bush leaves this planet! No photos yet I’m afraid…

Thanks Tomter for having taken his time to make this interview with us

Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB

November 2004

Professional experience in on-line and off-line media. Art direction. Brand development (visual identity). Character creation. Development work for web, flash animations and presentations, creating web sites.

I have grow up in Portuguese country side, in between mountain and trees what I think had help me expand my imagination to further levels…

Savio Fonseca is a Art Director and illustrator, currently living and working in São Paulo at Wunderman.

I really have a couple of styles of working, my highly rendered work is more influenced by traditional fine art, then theres a more commercial side that is favoured by the editorial, publishing, fashion market.

I got involved with illustration four years ago. I’m self-taught, I have no degree (or anything close to it), nor any professional training.

I try to do whimsical and abstract drawings. I think my style is a mish mash of the ways that effort ends up coming across.

Jake Brewer is a South African designer & illustrator currently based in London.

I graduated in 2007 and I´ve been working with graphic and motion design since then.

I’m 24 years old. I was born in Santos, a small city in the coast of Brazil. I studied Multimidia Design at SENAC.

I took the Advertisement course at a University in Bauru. At my first year I started to understand what it was and to have a giant will to work for a agency.

I started working as a designer in 2005, developing good images, colors and tastes for pornographic market.

llustration, videogames and music, financing my love for beer and concerts working as Interactive Art Director for companies like Grupo W, Televisa, newspapers like Excelsior, and Ogilvy Mexico.

My name is Emma Geary aka Anarkitty. I am 30 years old and I live just outside of Belfast Northern Ireland. I have loved drawing since I was pretty young. Went to University and did a Ba(Hons) Degree in Art and design specialising in New Media.

Mopa is a graphic arts studio that believes in the good side of things. We share positive experiences and sensations in every project we design.

I’m 33 years old, I live in São Paulo with my wife Carla and for the past 6 years I’ve been working as an editorial and advertising illustrator for both national and international market.

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New York based Australian I am a self-taught artist who concentrated on learning the techniques that expressed his ideas and a unique vision. All the rest is superfluous.

Brazillian designer, living and working in Rio, married, fulltime freelancer (so far), like to laugh, open minded and a reeeeally nice dude.