摄影师Stephanie Kindermann

—首先——您能否指出谁是来自布里斯班, 澳大利亚的最优秀的摄影师？:)

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

—您上相吗？

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

—您是如何进入摄影行业的？

—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.

—在您看来，一张好的照片最重要的组成部分有哪些？

—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.

—您热爱旅行吗？

—I live for it.

—对于您的职业，您最喜欢什么地方？

—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.

—对于您的职业，您最不喜欢什么地方？

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

—摄影的前景如何？

—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.

—您专长的摄影风格有什么特别？

—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.

—您如何应对批评？

—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.

—摄影有什么趋势？

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

—客户选择摄影师时应该遵循什么标准？

—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.

—拍摄时绝不允许什么事情？

—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.

—有哪些摄影师可以捕捉的通常会被忽略的细节？

—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.

—什么影响照片的价值？它的元素有哪些？

—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.

—在您看来，什么人可以成为 21 世纪的代表人物？

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

—您想要为谁拍摄？

—People madly in love.

—您有职业禁忌吗？

—I am a woman of no limits.

—您想与谁一起拍摄？

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

—您担心什么？为什么担心？

—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.

—在生命中，给您印象最深的时刻是什么？

—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.

—如果有机会成为一个动画、文学或电影人物，您想成为谁？为什么？

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

—在生命中谁鼓舞了您？为什么？

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

—您如何定义成功？如何衡量它？

—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?

—您非常受人喜欢或尊敬吗？

—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.

—您在工作中犯过的最大错误是什么？

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

—当您准备去旅行时，要携带什么？为什么？

—My husband, because he can read maps.

—在您拥有的器材中，是否有一些是您后悔购买的？为什么？

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

—您如何提高自己以拍摄出更好的照片？

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

—谁的作品对您作为摄影师的影响最大？

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

—开始拍摄时，您最想知道什么？

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

—您想对自己的照片说什么？

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

—什么激励您继续拍摄下去？

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

—您的父母是否应该更严厉或变得温和一点呢？

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

—如果能够回到过去，您会有什么不同的举动？

—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.

—对于其他星球上的生命，您有何看法？

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

—谁是您的英雄？

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

—您不尊重谁？

—Paedophiles

—您在业余时间会做什么？

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

—公众从不会看到您的哪一面？

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

—什么时候您对自己的作品完全满意？

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

—您主张男人和女人的传统角色吗？

—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.

—您很容易就会交到朋友吗？

—Yes

—您想生活在什么地方？

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

—您答应做的最愚蠢的事情是什么？

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

—结婚之后生活的质量高吗？

—YES! It just keeps getting better!

—您有最喜欢的玩笑吗？请告诉我们。

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

—您喜欢狗还是喜欢猫？

—Cats. I'm not embarrassed.

—您讨厌谁，或者厌恶什么？

—Celery. Eww

—生活中最美好的事情是：

—Champagne and cheeses with friends.

—生活中最让人烦心的事情是：

—People farting next to you on flights.

—您是否想改变周围的一些事情？

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

—您希望改变自己的哪些方面？

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

—您希望改变世界什么地方？

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

—对于刚入行的摄影师，您能提供一些建议吗？

—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!

—如果外星人来到地球并且您是他们见到的第一个人，您会跟他们说什么？

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

—如果您被邀请去拍一部电影，您希望是什么流派？

—Whatever genre Monty Python calls itself.

—明天我会去做...

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