1. What's your (fake) name and how long have you been working with photojournalism?

Joe Hockley. I am not a photojournalist.
2.How did you become interested in photography, and what education path did you take to get into the career?

A degree in graphic design got me interested in photography. I like photographing people.
3.Where do you work and what are the working conditions like?

I work freelance and it's great. Easy and well paid.
4.How often do you work, and if you don't mind me asking, what sort of income do you have?

I work every now and then, but it will improve as my name becomes more well known.
5. What kind of camera equipment do you use and carry with you?

Nikon D3s for my work, Leica M4 for day to day photography.
6.What kind of personal traits do you ned to succeed in this industry?

Good with people is key. Good technical knowledge to be able to achieve results your employers want.
7.What is a typical day at work like for you?

Shoot, go home, post process, sleep.
8.What's your biggest challenge working as a photographer?

The pressure of having only one shot at getting the photographs you want.
9.What's your favourite part of the job?

Being left with one or two shots I can add to my portfolio that I am proud of.
10.How do you think your job will change in the future? Is there job security?

So long as I keep getting better, and my name becomes more well known I reckon there is a ton of job security in photography, but it takes work to get to that stage.


hope that didn't sound too self absorbed. haha

 

Some exploration shots. Tell me what you think

 

The last one, I am very uptight about vertical lines being straight vertical, etc.... distortion annoys me.

Nice though, just a technical thing that salts my game.

 

Yea I know what you mean. Shot it at 18, probably should have backed up and got 35

 

You should crop those shots, I feel as theres plenty of open space that shouldn't be there, you know what I mean? Still enjoy your shtos RFi, I feel as somehting bad is about to happen when I look at em haha

 

I don't crop anything I shoot son, I feel like it's cheating. But for example on that second shot I think that open black space adds more tension to the staircase


And actually, in those first two shots, while I was creeping around in that dark-ass abandoned house I was pretty positive something bad was about to happen every time I went around a corner haha





Couple more

 

Cheers AK, I appreciate the answers! Your work definitely inspires me. Do you consider yourself a freelance photographer?

Zof- I really like the second picture in your first post, other than the black section on the left.

I just found this stream down the road from my house:
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very nice rfi.. also i agree to the creepy feeling ur pics give really digg that though

edit ya maybe crop a bit off the blackness in the stair case .. kinda gives me that to much space feeling like SAID said

 

backwards color film. these were the only ones that came out nice, the others looked all hazy. fun experiment yall should try it out.

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Yeah I'd consider myself a freelance photographer at the moment.

 

since this is a graffiti forum and all...

more to come... once the negatives get done

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this is by far the scariest bike I have ever rode. Look at it! breaks are for poofs!
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Like that shot of the bike a lot. Never been a fan of those close-up-to-wall kind of shots though. But hell, I've taken them too so who am i kidding. good stuff good stuff

 

Just getting 'arty' with it, she was a long day.

Anyway, thinking out loud, I would actually consider robbing a house if it had the camera in my sig in it.
Best looking camera in the world. Full stop. Look at it !!!!!!!!!!

 

true that

 

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this one looks dope AK.. also love the bike photo.. no brakes fuck id be shittin bricks going down a hill, well wait thats what the shoe to wheel is made for

 

anyone ever been to a g8/g20 summit? im oging to the one in t.o, downtown toronto is being turned into a police state for the weekend its hosting it. im hoping for an eventful one.

 

I went to the G20 in Pittsburgh last year and it was crazy as hell. We're in Chicago right now heading up to Toronto as fast as we can.

 

whens this happening .. i heard about that few weeks ago on the news. i wanted to skip work to check it out but im sure they gunna kill me for that hah

 

Hopefully there will be some crazy shit this weekend in the city, So far its just been that lame ass stencil shit on bank machines.
Its in downtown toronto but they got a section of the thing fenced off in like a 3 mile radius or something,