Photographe Tatsiana Avakyan

—Tout d’abord, qui pouvez-vous désigner meilleur photographe dans Göteborg, Suède ? :)

—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.

—Êtes-vous photogénique ?

—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.

—Comment avez-vous commencé à travailler dans la photographie ?

—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.

—Selon vous, quels sont les éléments les plus importants d'une bonne photo ?

—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.

—Aimez-vous voyager ?

—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.

—Quel aspect de votre profession préférez-vous ?

—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.

—Quel aspect de votre profession aimez-vous le moins ?

—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.

—Quel est le futur de la photographie ?

—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.

—Qu'est-ce que le style de photographie dans lequel vous travaillez a de spécial ?

—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.

—Comment gérez-vous les critiques ?

—Constructive criticism is they key to improvement!

—Y a-t-il des modes dans la photographie ?

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

—Quels devraient être les critères pour qu'un client choisisse un photographe ?

—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.

—Quels sont les interdits lors des photographies ?

—Ruining the moment to get a picture!

—Quels détails seul un photographe peut-il remarquer ?

—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.

—Qu'est-ce qui influence la valeur d'une photo ? Quels en sont les éléments ?

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

—Quelle personne peut être le symbole du 21ème siècle selon vous ?

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

—Qui aimeriez-vous prendre en photo ?

—Grace Jones is number 1 on my list

—Qui vous inspire dans votre vie et pourquoi ?

—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

—Comment définissez-vous le succès ? Comment le mesurez-vous ?

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

—Quand vous partez en voyage que prenez-vous avec vous et pourquoi ?

—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!

—Est-ce que vous regrettez d'avoir acheté un de vos gadgets ? Lequel et pourquoi ?

—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.

—Quelle méthode utilisez-vous pour améliorer vos prises de photo ?

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

—Quelle chose auriez-vous aimer connaître avant de vous lancer dans la photographie ?

—Business and marketing, boring but useful!

—Quelle est votre motivation pour continuer la photographie ?

—Willingness to improve!

—Si vous pouviez revenir dans le temps, que changeriez-vous ?

—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.

—Que pensez-vous de la vie sur d'autres planètes ?

—Hell's yeah!

—Quand êtes-vous complètement satisfait de votre travail ?

—When reality exceeded my expectations.

—Croyez-vous en le traditionalisme des rôles de l'homme et de la femme ?

—I believe in gender equality!

—Quelle est la chose la plus stupide que vous ayez accepté ?

—I have done too many!

—Existe-t-il une vie après le mariage ?

—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.

—La plus belle chose de la vie est :

—People who surround me.

—Que changeriez-vous dans le monde ?

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

—Auriez-vous quelques astuces pour des photographes débutants ?

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

—Des extraterrestres arrivent sur Terre et vous êtes le premier à les rencontrer. Que leur dites-vous ?

—''May I take a picture of you?''

—Demain, je vais aller faire...

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