Fotógrafo Tatsiana Avakyan

—En primer lugar, ¿quién puede llamar el mejor fotógrafo en Gotemburgo, Suecia? :)

—This is a hard question, isn's it? It depends on so many aspects like style, editing, way you work with couple, vision, etc. I personally have some favourites whose works I admire, but I am keeping as a secret, I am letting everyone else to choose for themselves.

—¿Es usted fotogénico(a)?

—From my childhood I have this idea in my head that I look horrible on pictures... you know fake smile from your first schoolbook picture? I generally consider myself as a non photogenic person. But I believe that anyone can look good on pictures if camera is in right hands.

—¿Cómo empezó a trabajar en la industria de fotografía?

—It all started in 2012, when I took my first dslr camera to my brothers wedding. I was following the photographer as her assistant, trying to find interesting angles, watching her work with the couple, asking million questions (I can only imagine how annoyed she must have been). I managed to take 3 really nice portraits from that day, which I still like now. This was how it all begun.

—¿En su opinión, cuáles son los elementos más importantes de una buena fotografía?

—Right composition, perfect light, moment and colour are basics of great photo; following these points and combining them in one image, will always end up in an attractive picture.

—¿Le gusta viajar?

—I definitely do, traveling is always fun for me. It doesn't matter if I go to another country or closest city. Traveling is experience, time for thoughts and always learning new things.

—¿Qué le gusta más de su profesión?

—I guess being a part of someone's happy day is already joyful in itself. It's amazing to be able to capture couple's emotions on wedding day, see them in love, see them on top of their happiness. Another favourite part of being a wedding photographer is constantly meeting new people, communicating, learning their stories.

—¿Qué le gusta menos de su profesión?

—There is definitely nothing that I hate about it. And I can't really think of something I dislike, but I guess as any usual job, being a photographer has its own difficulties, hmm let's say like carrying around heavy bags full of equipment.

—¿Cuál será el futuro de la fotografía?

—Classics will always stay classics! There obviously will be new trends appearing, changing constantly to something new on and on, but I know most definitely that classic pictures will always be on top.

—¿Qué tiene de especial el género fotográfico en que trabaja?

—Wedding is a one of kind thing, you can't rewind, ask someone to repeat their actions, you have to be here and now! this particular moment, you have to be alert and ready for your best shot.

—¿Cómo gestiona las críticas?

—Constructive criticism is they key to improvement!

—¿Existe alguna tendencia en la fotografía?

—Yes, most definitely there are, they are changing every season to keep wedding industry alive, new and interesting.

—¿Qué criterios debería tener en cuenta una persona a la hora de elegir a un fotógrafo?

—They should love the majority of photographer's works, they should feel like these are the images that they would like to have, they need to agree with photographer's style not to be disappointed when they will receive pictures.

—¿Qué no está permitido de ningún modo cuando realiza una fotografía?

—Ruining the moment to get a picture!

—¿Qué detalles que normalmente no tenemos en cuenta puede un fotógrafo captar?

—It's the morning before wedding, normally guests are not involved into this part of the day. Photographer can capture all the exciting moments before the ceremony.

—¿Qué influye en el valor de una fotografía? ¿Cuáles son sus elementos?

—It's uniqueness, the moment, feelings and composition of course.

—En su opinión, ¿qué persona podría ser un símbolo del siglo XXI?

—In each era there is one, but it's too early to judge yet.

—¿A quién le gustaría fotografiar?

—Grace Jones is number 1 on my list

—¿Quién le inspira en su vida y por qué?

—I've never had a muse or an idol to look up to, I always try to take inspiration from people around me; there is always something we can borrow as an example from each other

—¿Cómo definiría el éxito? ¿Cómo lo mide?

—Success is being respected, feeling good about what you are doing, enjoying your job, feeling happy.

—Cuando va de viaje, ¿qué lleva consigo y por qué?

—I normally take just most necessary things to avoid having and extremely heavy bag, but of course my camera is number one to take with me!

—¿Se arrepiente de alguno de los gadgets que ha comprado? ¿Por qué?

—Fish eye lens! Bought in in 2014 for some reason, thought I could do some fun things with it, but it turned out to be totally not my style, so I sold it few months after.

—¿Cómo se forma para tomar las mejores imágenes?

—Reading articles, trying they things with camera, shooting often.

—¿Cuál es la única cosa que desearía haber sabido cuando comenzó a tomar fotografías?

—Business and marketing, boring but useful!

—¿Qué le motiva a continuar tomando imágenes?

—Willingness to improve!

—¿Si pudiera volver atrás en el tiempo, qué haría de forma diferente?

—If to speak about my life events I would choose to study a different subject in university and would go in photography even earlier then I did.

—¿Qué piensa de la vida en otros planetas?

—Hell's yeah!

—¿Está complemente satisfecho de su trabajo?

—When reality exceeded my expectations.

—¿Cree en los roles tradicionales de hombres y mujeres?

—I believe in gender equality!

—¿Cuál es la cosa más estúpida que ha aceptado hacer?

—I have done too many!

—¿Hay vida después del matrimonio?

—Yes definitely! Wedding is just another event in your relationship. So if you focus on each other and keep caring for your partner it will get better and better day by day.

—Lo mejor de su vida es:

—People who surround me.

—¿Qué le gustaría cambiar del mundo?

—If I could, I would erase racism from face of the Earth.

—¿Podría ofrecer algunos consejos a los fotógrafos que empiezan?

—Start out as an assistant! Practice a lot on couple photoshoots, not necessarily wedding, learn how to work with 2 people in picture.

—Si los extraterrestres llegaran a la Tierra y fuera la primera persona que encontraran, ¿qué les diría?

—''May I take a picture of you?''

—Mañana voy a hacer...

—Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Edit! Edit! Edit!