Fotograf Tatsiana Avakyan

—În primul rând, pe cine puteți numi cel mai bun fotograf în Göteborg, Suedia? :)

—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.

—Sunteți fotogenic?

—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.

—Cum ați ajuns în industria fotografiei?

—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.

—Care sunt cele mai importante componente ale unei fotografii bune, după părerea dvs?

—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.

—Vă place să călătoriți?

—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.

—Ce vă place cel mai mult la profesia dvs?

—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.

—Ce vă place cel mai puțin la profesia dvs?

—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.

—Care va fi viitorul fotografiei?

—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.

—Ce este special la genul de fotografie în care sunteți specializat?

—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.

—Cum răspundeți criticilor?

—Constructive criticism is they key to improvement!

—Există tendințe în fotografia?

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

—Care ar trebui să fie criteriile după care un client să aleagă un fotograf?

—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.

—Ce lucruri sunt complet nepermise când fotografiați?

—Ruining the moment to get a picture!

—Ce detalii de obicei neobservate de alții pot fi observate de un fotograf?

—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.

—Ce influențează valoarea fotografiei? Care sunt elementele ei?

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

—Ce persoană poate fi simbolul secolului XXI după părerea dvs?

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

—Pe cine doriți să fotografiați?

—Grace Jones is number 1 on my list

—Cine vă inspiră în viață și de ce?

—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

—Cum definiți succesul? Cum îl măsurați?

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

—Când plecați în călătorie, ce luați cu dvs. și de ce?

—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!

—Există vreun lucru pe care vă doriți să nu-l fi cumpărat dintre aparatele pe care le aveți? De ce?

—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.

—Cum vă pregătiți pentru a face fotografii mai bune?

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

—Care este lucrul pe care vă doriți să-l fi știut când ați început să faceți fotografii?

—Business and marketing, boring but useful!

—Ce vă motivează să continuați să faceți fotografii?

—Willingness to improve!

—Dacă v-ați putea întoarce în timp, ce ați face diferit?

—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.

—Ce credeți despre viața pe alte planete?

—Hell's yeah!

—Când sunteți complet mulțumit de munca dvs?

—When reality exceeded my expectations.

—Credeți în rolurile tradiționale ale femeii și bărbatului?

—I believe in gender equality!

—Care este cel mai stupid lucru pe care ați fost de acord să-l faceți?

—I have done too many!

—Există viață după căsătorie?

—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.

—Cel mai bun lucru în viață este:

—People who surround me.

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați în lume?

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

—Ne puteți da câteva sugestii pentru fotografii începători?

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

—Dacă extratereștrii ar veni pe Pământ și ați fi prima persoana care s-ar întâlni cu ei, ce le-ați spune?

—''May I take a picture of you?''

—Mâine mă voi duce să fac...

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