Fotograf Stephanie Kindermann

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

—Ha! There's a mad, crazy hoard of us.

—Sunteți fotogenic?

—Yes, and I'll tell you why – I have a high threshold for embarrassment. The less self conscious you are, the better you photograph.

—Cum ați ajuns în industria fotografiei?

—So here's the story – my father had been a wedding photographer and so I had my first little film disposables from about 5 years old. I’d shot probably thousands of rolls by the time I made it to photography college, but it was the moment where I was standing in the darkroom seeing that first image rise out of the chemical trays that I remember. Everyone else around me was fairly cool about the whole process but I couldn’t stop laughing with this electric thrill. This was the moment in my life where it became absolutely clear – I knew this is what I was going to do now. Weddings? Everyone loves a party. And a wedding is the best kind of party to shoot.

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

—Good visual narrative – all the elements needed to give you context.
The split second – at the high point of madness.
The feels – something that makes your heart hurt or leap.

—Vă place să călătoriți?

—I live for it.

—Ce vă place cel mai mult la profesia dvs?

—Learning the world's secrets.
I'll share some of them with you.
No one cooks better than a Greek mama or parties as hard as a Croatian groomsman. Vietnamese elders are the bravest karaoke singers, the French do the best cigar and whiskey bar (not to mention the cheeses) and that Ghanaians will crush any dance floor. Chinese door games can be a hair raising experience, and it is deeply moving it is to see Maori women sing a welcoming song to the bride.

—Ce vă place cel mai puțin la profesia dvs?

—When the alternate drop arrives, the chicken is always overcooked. Always.

—Care va fi viitorul fotografiei?

—Wow this is cool, I hope it will be some sort of virtual reality with a fully rendered 3D capture from the entire day. You'll be able to bang on your head set and take a walk through the entire event from any time and angle.

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

—Often having a professional photograph your family is a very rare event. With this in mind I always devote a lot of time and care to capture portraits of treasured people – grandparents, GREAT grandparents, brothers, sisters, children.

—Cum răspundeți criticilor?

—I walked through a lot of fire in my early years of learning to shoot, and I'm still here :) Think of my teacher as being that old guy from Kill Bill who strokes his beard a lot.

—Există tendințe în fotografia?

—Yes, and they're mostly so cheesy. Things like making love hearts with your hands.... plz no!

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

—Love the work – don't employ your photographer then ask for an aesthetic from another artist!
Vibes! Would you want to drink a beer with them? Ideally you start the booking process with good vibes, and finish the wedding singing bad karaoke together.

—Ce lucruri sunt complet nepermise când fotografiați?

—Hunger. Bride, groom, photographer and squad members should be loaded up with snacks. Picnic style canapes and champagne if you're fancy, sausage rolls and red bull if you're not.

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

—Ha! "Common people," love it.
One of my favourites is the tight-lipped, crazy-eyed stage-whispered threats of a parent to errant child – usually during a particularly tender moment during the ceremony.

—Ce influențează valoarea fotografiei? Care sunt elementele ei?

—The value in a photo is, I feel, in how valued the subject is in it.
For example, a wife will always love a portrait of her husband that has captured how she sees him. If he's a charismatic person, than a genuine laugh. If he's a quiet person, then a photograph of him unaware, relaxed and thoughtful.

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

—Elon Musk. Billionaire, genius, puts a model car in his real car then launches it into space. What a legend.

—Pe cine doriți să fotografiați?

—People madly in love.

—Aveți tabuuri profesionale?

—I am a woman of no limits.

—Cu cine ați vrea să faceți fotografii?

—Jonas Peterson. He seems like a very relaxed, interesting fellow.

—Ce vă îngrijorează și de ce?

—Mostly I have dreams where I've overslept my alarm and a bride is calling me, asking where I am, and I'm a 2 hour drive away. I guess that's my biggest worry.

—Care este cel mai impresionant moment din viața dvs?

—Once, driving home very late from a wedding (of course), I saw space junk or a comet or the worlds most massive shooting star – so bright it illuminated everything around me. It travelled directly down the line of the straight highway I was driving for a full 10 seconds before burning out. An exceptional moment.

—Dacă ați fi fost un personaj de desen animat, de carte sau de film, cine v-ar fi plăcut să fiți?

—Trinity from The Matrix. She was cool and wore latex before lip injections and enormous butts became the symbols of beauty.

—Cine vă inspiră în viață și de ce?

—Jimmy Nelson, photographer and author of Before They Pass Away. His is a body of work that is truly exceptional and of historical value.

—Cum definiți succesul? Cum îl măsurați?

—Can't measure it but you can feel it – are you getting enough quality sleep? Are you eating well and sharing good wine with friends? Do you have leisure time with your loved ones, and does your work fill you with pleasure?

—V-ar plăcea să fiți mai degrabă plăcut sau respectat?

—Not everyone will like you all of the time, but you should always conduct yourself in a way that people have no loss of respect for you.

—Care este cea mai mare greșeală pe care ați făcut-o în profesia dvs?

—Working at a camera shop, shipped two very expensive video cameras to someone who turned out to be fraudulent. OOPS!

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

—My husband, because he can read maps.

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

—No, but people love to "gift" me their defunct camera gear. Please stop doing this baby boomer friends.

—Cum vă pregătiți pentru a face fotografii mai bune?

—I spend A LOT of time on lovely curation sites like this one.

—Activitatea cărei persoane v-a influențat cel mai mult în calitate de fotograf?

—Steve McCurry (again). Portrait photographer for National Geographic.

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

—That the rules don't actually matter, and only diminish the potential expression of true moments.

—Ce doriți să exprimați prin fotografiile dvs?

—This is a mirror of your life in this moment.

—Ce vă motivează să continuați să faceți fotografii?

—I have no other talents. LOL, no I can cook quite well. But photographing is my true purpose.

—Părinții dvs. ar fi trebuit să mai mai stricți sau mai puțin stricți?

—Less. I was raised conservative Catholic. Not allowed to watch The Simpsons when you're 17... come on!

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

—I wouldn't bother going to study, and instead buy a great kit and apprentice myself out 3 years earlier instead. I did the ol' highschool > study > apprentice > professional route. But study is now a moot point with online resources like Linda.com.

—Ce credeți despre viața pe alte planete?

—Oh jeez I hope so. Certainly spices things up.

—Cine sunt eroii dvs?

—My colleagues, for lifting my heavy, heavy camera bag up and down stairs and into the car innumerable times.

—Pentru cine nu aveți respect?

—Paedophiles

—Ce faceți în timpul liber?

—I punch through Netflix series like a karate master does bricks.

—Care este latura dvs. pe care publicul nu o vede niciodată?

—Lying around in pyjamas, no makeup, orange Dorito stained fingers, unshaved legs.

—Când sunteți complet mulțumit de munca dvs?

—When a couple tells me they cried seeing the pictures. (With JOY).

—Credeți în rolurile tradiționale ale femeii și bărbatului?

—There are definitely things men are better at, like being muscly and crushing rocks with their bare fists. And there are definitely things women are better at, like looking good in high heels and jean shorts.

—Vă faceți prieteni ușor?

—Yes

—Unde v-ar plăcea să trăiți?

—I'd love a couple of years in Istanbul. I'm a big fan!

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

—To go on a VERY long bush walk, mere hours after getting home from a pub crawl.

—Există viață după căsătorie?

—YES! It just keeps getting better!

—Aveți o glumă preferată? Spuneți-o.

—Any Gary Larson comic ever published. He might be the funniest man on earth.

—Vă plac câinii sau pisicile?

—Cats. I'm not embarrassed.

—Pe cine sau ce urâți?

—Celery. Eww

—Cel mai bun lucru în viață este:

—Champagne and cheeses with friends.

—Cel mai neplăcut lucru în viață este:

—People farting next to you on flights.

—Este ceva în jur ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați?

—I'm about to try my hand at home renovation, in a very literal interpretation of that question!

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați la dvs?

—I would love to learn Chinese. And sign language. And also do some pottery. And learn to ride horses. Probably should exercise more too.

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați în lume?

—Let's turn down the level of racism shall we, it seems to be gaining momentum instead of losing it.

—Ne puteți da câteva sugestii pentru fotografii începători?

—Sure! Don't train yourself out of -not- shooting things. Such as the weird, or awkward, or funny or embarrassing moments. These are some of the greatest photographs you could take!

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

—I guess I'd ask them if they wanted to join us for lunch, I know a good place...

—Dacă ați fi solicitat să faceți un film, ce gen ar fi?

—Whatever genre Monty Python calls itself.

—Mâine mă voi duce să fac...

—EDIT! Pat my cat. Email clients! Poke around the fridge and hope for the best. Print some albums! Look at memes!