Medium and Technique: Film photography

How did this exhibition come to be installed at WTF?
There was an opening in the exhibition calendar as a result of the postponement of another artist. We needed to fill the slot quickly. I happen to be one of the owners, and I had been thinking for a while, “What should I do with all my old prints?” 

Of all the photos taken for all your assignments, how did you choose this collection?
The exhibition is primarily made up of images that photo editors at various magazines had selected to print from my negatives or prints I had submitted for an assignment. They are not necessarily the best images for telling the story assigned or the best images I have taken, but they are part of the process that went into creating an issue of a magazine.

Is this collection telling a story?
The photographs are like sentences from a longer story, the story of the assignment to visit some destination, and the story of my career as a photographer using film as my medium. You won’t get the full story, but each random image, looked at with all the others, will give a sense of what I have done and my point of view.

What is the story behind this particular photo?
Often I am asked to photograph a certain restaurant or dish for an assignment. To make it look appealing or appetizing for the reader I photographed this fish dish in Istanbul, before I ate it and after. I thought the finished plate showed much more how delicious it was and also teased the photo editor a bit about their preconception about what a beautiful food shot should be.

If these photos hadn’t appeared in magazines, where would they be?
They would not exist had these magazines not sent me out to take them.