Magenta: What camera do you use?
I use Rolleiflex, a German camera. It’s a double lens from the 1930s. I only use film cameras. I never shoot digital; I don’t like it.
What apps do you use to showcase your photography
Instagram is too mainstream for me, and I don’t use apps. I only have my website.
Do you ever feel like not being involved in a community like Instagram hurts your work?
In the ’90s, we didn’t have apps and people figured it out. I feel like a lot of artists tend to sell their lifestyles, rather than their art, and that feels wrong to me. I focus on the art itself and care less about commercial interest.
Do you feel like technology has helped you further your work in any way?
I stay away from technology and find real communities and people that exist in creative neighborhoods. There’s been a lot of gentrification, but I used to hang out in Williamsburg before it was hip, and then Bushwick, and now all of my friends have moved to Ridgewood. I go to museums and small galleries and deal with people directly. I just go out in the community.
What’s the last app you used?
Google Maps.
How do you use Google Maps in your work?
I use it to scout locations.
What was your first phone?
That blue Nokia block phone.
What’s the most memorable technological development of your lifetime?
MP3s, but I’m a record collector, and I’m still listening to vinyl these days.
Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos?
I don’t know who they are.
Silicon Valley or Game of Thrones?
Neither. I haven’t watched TV in six years.
Call, text, or email?
Meet directly.
There’s the ideal “user journey” and then there’s real life. Snapshot documents how people around the world define their relationship to technology. Check out the series here.
